“I am a human rights peer educator: What about you?”: reflections from the Study Session on HRE

From the 6^th to the 13^th of March, 2011 more than 30 students from 15 European countries participated in the OBESSU Study Session “Human Rights Education with and by school students: empowering school students to be peer educators in HRE”which took place at the European Youth Centre of the Council of Europe in Budapest, Hungary. The one week event’s main goal was to empower students to raise awareness of Human Rights in their environments through peer education. Because it’s not only important what you teach, but how you teach it.

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Why peer education?

This was one of the many good questions we were asked to answer during the study session. And everybody had an opinion on it. So what is peer education and why should we implement in the schools?

Definitions in the video by Obessu participants

PEER EDUCATION

Peer education can be considered as non-formal education between equals. It is based not only on knowledge but also on interaction and the peer educator’s experience and personal view.

HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION

Raising awareness and educating about Human Rights is necessary because these universal values are a minimum requirement to ensure any real democracy and peaceful environment. Human Rights Education aims to make sure everyone learns to understand them, to develop them and to never tolerate their violation.