History for Peace has just concluded its first ever Peace Ambassadors project. The project was launched in February 2026 in collaboration with the Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (DLHS) at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) at Bengaluru. Three final year students of History – Aditya Sunil, Avishi Agarwal, and Yash Bhattacharjee took on the mantle of peace ambassadors under the guidance of their professor, Swathi Shivanand. The aim of the project was to...

This is an abridged version of a comprehensive report with particular focus on the relevance of the conference in the classroom. It includes inputs from Harpreet Kaur, DPS Ludhiana, Nikhil Ranjan Pawar, DPS Pune and Aniket Nandy, DPS Coimbatore and has been compiled by Rohit Kumar, DPS Patna of the TAKSHILA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY (TES). Naveen Kishore delivering the Opening Addess “Tolerance does not grow with banning what is thought to be unpalatable; it grows with arguing and talking about...

In her keynote address at the History for Peace conference in 2015 Barbara Christophe from the Georg Eckert Institute said ‘(history) textbooks are probably among the most selective media we have.’ The textbook selects, omits, simplifies and gives shape to the past. Sometimes, those choices are influenced not only by the demands of the classroom, but also by politics, ideology and ideas about what should be remembered. This module looks at the textbook differently. Rather than accepting its...