Phill Gittins, Ph.D., serves as Education Director at World BEYOND War, and is based in the UK.
Gittins is a practitioner-scholar with over 20 years of leadership, programming, and analysis experience in the areas of peace, education, psychology, youth, and community development. He has lived, worked, and travelled in over 60 countries across 6 continents; taught in schools, colleges, and universities around the world; and trained thousands individuals and organisations on peace and social change-related issues. Other experience includes working in youth offending prisons; developing, launching, and overseeing a wide range of programmes and projects; and consultancy assignments for public, private, and non-profit organizations. He has received multiple awards for his work, including a Rotary Peace Fellowship, KAICIID Fellowship, and Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace. He is also a Positive Peace Activator and Global Peace Index Ambassador for the Institute for Economics and Peace.
Phill earned his PhD in International Conflict Analysis, MA in Education, and BA in Youth and Community Studies. He also holds postgraduate qualifications in Peace and Conflict Studies, Education and Training, and Teaching in Higher Education. He is a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist, as well as a certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner and project manager. He sits on several boards and steering groups, including the Journal of Peace Education, the Global Campaign for Peace Education, and the Global Campaign on Military Spending – UK.
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Phill Gittins wrote KC116: Peace Education.
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