The meeting stimulated dialogue through a series of informative and lively plenary sessions, panel discussions, and collaborative workshops among diverse stakeholders, all addressing the challenges and opportunities for translating the Recommendation’s broad vision and key guidelines into holistic, interdisciplinary action across  Asia and the Pacific. For example, the exemplary plenary session, ‘Co-Creating our Roadmap to the Future: Youth Perspectives on the Recommendation’, co-led by Asia-Pacific members of the SDG 4 Youth and Student Network and UNESCO, facilitated intergenerational dialogue, allowing youth panelists and participants to exchange insights on how the Recommendation might best address young people's needs in the region.

Over the course of three days, the meeting convened four expert-led panels of speakers from diverse backgrounds related to the Recommendation's key action areas of Policy; Capacity Development and Monitoring; Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment; Teacher Development; and Lifelong Learning (LLL). Key discussion points included the urgency of enhancing critical thinking, adopting media literacy, strengthening SDG 4.7 Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship monitoring, and follow-up evaluation.

Throughout the panel discussions, participants emphasised reshaping education to focus on social cohesion, equity, and equality, while ensuring everyone's human rights. This requires a safe, respectful ecosystem, and shifting from current academic stresses towards a more holistic educational agenda. Discussants highlighted the need for transformative pedagogies, strengthening teacher training and autonomy, and redefining assessment for holistic student development. It was widely agreed that education for peace, human rights, and sustainable development should extend well beyond schools and classrooms, integrating these values into societies and communities for lifelong and life-wide learning.

One of the Conference’s key activities was to engage participants and gather their feedback for the co-creation of a regional ‘Roadmap’ for diverse stakeholders, expressly to integrate the updated Recommendation into Asia-Pacific national education policies and practices.

• Revision of the 1974 Recommendation concerning education for international understanding, co-operation and peace and education relating to human rights and fundamental freedoms
• Forging a future of peace through education and sustainable development in Asia-Pacific

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