Curriculum Links

Below are some examples of the numerous topics we can offer your school or college.

Cord’s Schools Programme offers a tailor made service to meet your curriculum needs, whereby you can work with our Schools’ Advisor.

Citizenship

Living in a diverse world
- People - How are we the same and how are we different?
- What are different places like – exploring what life is like in another type of community, e.g. refugees returning to their village in Burundi.
Human Rights
- What are our basic human rights?
- What happens when human rights are denied – exploring this in the light of situations around the world, particularly areas of conflict
- How do people become refugees? What might their experience be? Examples from a refugee camp in Chad.
Why is it so difficult to keep the peace in the world today?
- Studying a contemporary conflict in the context of its historical background, e.g. the conflict in Darfur.
- What is the fighting about? What is happening to the people involved in the conflict?
- How might an international peace-building organisation such as Cord contribute to the peace process?
How do we deal with conflict?
- Exploring concepts of forgiveness, justice and reconciliation in the context of conflict resolution – examples of Cord’s peace-building programmes (between abducted child soldiers and their aggressors in Northern Uganda).

Nobody’s fault – suffering and human responses to it
- What can people do to help to make things better?
- How does Cord try to help?
- Charitable giving – how is the money spent?
A Fair World – inequalities caused by war
- Why do organisations such as Cord believe they should act to help?
- What does Cord do and how does it work?
Freedom
- Exploring what life is like for people who are suffering, due to loss of human rights, as a result of violent conflict.
- What would you take with you if you had to flee from your home?

A contrasting locality overseas, using sources from locations Cord is working in
- Where is…?
- What is it like?
- What might it be like to live there – daily life, family life, housing, cooking, going to school?
Weather around the world
- Hot places.
- What is the place like? Terrain? Vegetation?
- How does the weather affect what people do?
Development of knowledge about places and locations
- Are there any links in your school with this place?
- Have children read any stories set in this place?
- What are the similarities and differences between this place and your local area?
- Is this place mentioned in the news? On television?
- How can you use sources such as photographs, DVDs and the internet to learn more about this place?

Conflict in the 20^th century:
- What are the main features of conflicts in Africa (Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan and Burundi) and Asia (Cambodia and Vietnam) during the late 20^th and early 21^st centuries?
- What impact have these conflicts had on life in these countries?