In 2000, the International Year for the Culture of Peace promoted by the United Nations, Bakeaz created the Bakeaz School of Peace.
The Bakeaz School of Peace emerged in a specific context — the Basque Country — where the culture of peace had to address serious, specific problems arising from various forms of terrorist violence and its effects on all areas of Basque society. This context required a strong commitment to the active defense of human rights from all spheres of society and, therefore, also from the field of education.
The Bakeaz School of Peace maintained a constant relationship with the educational community, which was its primary audience. It closely followed its concerns, demands, and suggestions in order to offer creative and useful alternatives to the challenges of peace education.
Escuela de Paz was a non-periodical monographic publication that explored the different dimensions of the complex concept of peace and a culture of peace. Its objective was to educate in a culture of peace grounded in the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms, sustainable development, democratic and cosmopolitan citizenship, and a civic ethics based on tolerance and intercultural solidarity.
All studies were written by experts in peace and human rights education, or development education.
