Free resource library: International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and conflict
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Conflict teaching resources
In the news (Newsthink)
![In South Sudan, a medical team runs with a patient on a stretcher with a Red Cross plane in the background](/-/media/feature/projectred/16x9/south-sudan-mobile-surgical-team.jpg?h=495&w=880&hash=C4ABB5EDC103FCB184E9776FAFF17017)
Age: 10-19
Type: Quick activity
Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time
Learn about the UK’s annual awareness event – Refugee Week – through a humanitarian lens using this Newsthink resource.
In the news (Newsthink)
![Volunteers and Sudanese people gather in a thin material tent](/-/media/feature/projectred/16x9/conflict-in-sudan-image-1.jpg?h=495&w=880&sc_lang=en&hash=65DACA6C30B58AA73C7E9FBD9D1C71C7)
Age: 10-19
Type: Quick activity
Subjects: Tutor time, PSHE
A teaching resource to explore the current crisis in Sudan through a humanitarian lens. Suitable for the top year of Primary and all of Secondary (10-19 years old)
In the news (Newsthink)
![polish-red-cross-staff-and-volunteers](/-/media/feature/projectred/16x9/polish-red-cross-staff-and-volunteers.webp?h=495&w=880&sc_lang=en&hash=3D85A0D90D92B8A8D6B33B1738CEF5DF)
Age: 11 - 19
Type: Quick activities
Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time
A Newsthink educational resource to examine and discuss the 2022 Ukraine crisis. Suitable for secondary school students Key stages 3 and 4.
In the news (Newsthink)
![Afghan refugees make their way towards an intake near Abbey Gate, as British and American security forces maintain order amongst the Afghan evacuees waiting to leave, in Kabul, Afghanistan](/-/media/feature/projectred/16x9/aaa-stories-and-other/haiti-earthquake/internally-displaced-afghan-families-in-kabul/afghanistan-displaced-families-in-kabul-wakil-kohsarafp/afghan-man-carrying-child-with-soldiers-close-by-afghanistan-2021.jpg?h=495&w=880&sc_lang=en&hash=CE90F2E96993F921015956A5ECC03867)
Age: 11 - 19
Type: Quick activities
Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time
A topical photo-based resource for young people to explore the Afghanistan crisis and its human impacts
In the news (Newsthink)
![School in Raqqa, Syria](/-/media/feature/projectred/16x9/school-in-syria.jpg?h=495&w=880&hash=AEE1757EAE44F9B9E05AC8AB355AA6D1)
Age: 11 - 16
Type: Lesson plan
Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time
Discuss the importance of education by looking at students who started their own school in Syria.
In the news (Newsthink)
![Poppies for remembrance day](/-/media/feature/projectred/16x9/beyond-remembrance-day.jpg?h=495&w=880&hash=E481408994EB192D2A8F520D9198294D)
Age: 11 - 16
Type: Lesson plan
Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time
Discussion activities on the importance of remembering.
In the news (Newsthink)
![Police tape blocking entry to road](/-/media/feature/projectred/16x9/teaching-resources-knife-crime-living-peacefully.jpg?h=495&w=880&hash=9169A3A606362FDA6CEDDBB4EF32A5B0)
Age: 11 - 16
Type: Lesson plan
Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time
Discussion activity considering how we can avoid conflict and build more peaceful communities.
![First World War Volunteers](/-/media/feature/projectred/16x9/get-involved/teaching-resources-first-world-war-volunteers-2.jpg?h=495&w=880&hash=DB651EEAFD29BE8214D536BAB821E2B4)
Age: 11 - 16
Type: Teaching package
Subjects: Citizenship, History
Teaching package of activities using the unique British Red Cross digitised volunteer archive and photographs, case studies and letters from the war.
In the news (Newsthink)
![A man walks over the rubble of a bombed building.](/-/media/feature/projectred/16x9/yemen-rubble-bombed-building.jpg?h=495&w=880&hash=027589978B168EA8129372CF42C238AC)
Age: 11–19
Type: Lesson plan, Newsthink
Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time
Activities to discuss airstrikes in Yemen and consider who and what is protected under international humanitarian law.
In the news (Newsthink)
![Syrian medical staff learn how to treat people in a chemical weapons attack.](/-/media/feature/projectred/16x9/chemical-weapons.jpg?h=495&w=880&hash=638E5A31C4B8FD8B7F3683E40848A9DC)
Age: 11–19
Type: Lesson plan, Newsthink
Subjects: PSHE, Tutor time
Secondary PSHE activities on chemical weapons and international humanitarian law.
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