Our Impact

Our Impact

Individuals impact their schools and larger communities…and vice versa. The Center for Peace Education works to impact vulnerable youth, schools, communities, and all of Liberia and Liberia’s regional neighbors—their futures are all interconnected…

Our Impact

CPE is helping bring positive change to Liberia—one individual, one school, and one community at a time.

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Impacting Individuals

Impacting Schools

Impacting Communities

Impacting Liberia and Its Neighbors

Over 1,000 students at more than eight public schools have received free, comprehensive & research-based peace education and mediation training

Have helped over 200 vulnerable youth pay school registration fees, get free school lunches, get necessary school supplies, including adequate school clothing

Have provided over 500 students with literacy instruction and academic tutoring to get them into school and help them finish!

Deployed over 50 peer conflict-resolution mediators in local schools

Reduced discipline referrals and helped improve prosocial behaviors in multiple public schools

Purchased a land parcel, but need funds to construct a peace education library and community reading room (Brewerville Montserrado County)

Have helped organize numerous community clearnup campaigns

Mobilized emergency health response campaigns (for Ebola and COVID-19), including the distribution of hygiene suppliesand science-based public awareness campaigns

Improved school graduation rates

Continue everyday fostering a broad knowledge of principles for conflict mediation and social tolerance

Help re-integrate marginalized or vulnerable youth after civil conflict

Named "Organization of the Year" in 2014 by News Watch Africa

Creating opportunities for vocational training and economic empowerment for young liberians

Have pursued numerous global engagements to promote peace studies (print, radio, TV, international conferences)

Reintegrating & Empowering Youth

The Center for Peace Education impacts young lives everyday…
  • Helping individuals understand how to live peaceably with others in their families, schools, and communities
  • Increasing trust and goodwill among individuals from diverse walks of life, faiths, and tribal and social affiliations
  • Equipping individuals with practical and effective conflict mediation skills
  • Providing ex-combatant youth who have never seen the inside of a classroom with their first opportunity to learn how to read and write
  • Assisting promising young students whose families could not afford the registration and tuition fees to get back into school and stay enrolled
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"When I first entered Annie Banks school…I was very abusive to both teachers and students… the semester peace program…changed my life from violence to peace."
- 7th Grade Student
Annie Banks Elementary and Junior High School
Brewerville, Montserrado County, Liberia
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Fostering Positive Change in School Climate and Student Outcomes

The Center for Peace Education is making a real impact on education in Liberia…
  • Reducing peer disputes, conflicts, and fights
  • Improving school climate and reducing disruptions that impede instruction
  • Enhancing interactions between students and school personnel
  • Reducing suspension and expulsion rates
  • Increasing student agency and helping students resolve conflicts before they escalate
"Peace Education is definitely having a tremendous success in our school…
About 75% of the students' behavior has changed from violent to non-violent.
They are no longer abusive, they don't talk rudely to teachers or their fellow schoolmates, they follow instructions, and they respect other students irrespective of their tribal or religious affiliations."
- Carmell A. Williams, Peace Education Teacher
Pamela Kay High School
Lower Virginia, Montserrado County, Liberia
"We will not stand by idle in the face of needs that may threaten the peace we are working so hard to nurture…"
- John T. Cooper, Director of Training and Research in Liberia for CPE
"Peace Education is a good program and I think 15 to 20 years from now, if it continues it will bring about a great change to this country, starting with the young people."
- Sam B. Massaquoi, Principal
Annie Banks Elementary and Junior High School
Brewerville, Montserrado County, Liberia
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On the Media

“BREWERVILLE-A local nongovernmental organization, the Center for Peace and Education on Saturday distributed several anti-COVID-19 materials to residents of Mouton Corner in Brewerville.”
- FrontPageAfrica, July 12, 2021