Module 8 PEACE EDUCATION

Module 8: PEACE
EDUCATION
The Concept of Peace Education
 Peace Education is the process of acquiring values, knowledge, attitudes,
skills and behaviors to live in harmony with oneself, others and the natural
environment, (Wikipedia)
 Peace education is a means of socializing children for peace and of

preventing violence and social injustice. Peace education may occur
formally through activities in schools, yet also occurs informally at home,
among peers, in the community, and in the wider society. Broadly, peace
education enables learning that supports values and behavior that
promote nonviolence and social justice. Peace education nurtures
empathy, compassion, and a sense of social interdependence; builds
specific skills of handling conflict through nonviolent means; and promotes
social justice. (www.sciencedirect.com)
 More so, peace education promotes the knowledge, skills and attitudes
that will help people either to prevent the occurrence of conflict, resolve
conflicts peacefully, or create social conditions conducive to peace.
 ( www.peaceinsight.org/)
THE GOALS OF PEACE EDUCATION
 The goals of peace education vary widely across the world.
 In developing countries, where there is no specific enemy or conflict but a

general lack of human rights, peace education seeks to elucidate sources
of inequality to promote a more equitable, stable future.
 In areas of intractable conflict between specific groups, as in Israel and the
Palestinian territories, peace education seeks to promote alternate
narratives of the conflict to encourage mutual understanding, respect, and
collaboration.
 In areas where there is no active conflict or violation of human rights,

peace education seeks to promote individual skills that reject the use of
violence and create stronger communities.
 (https://www.peace-ed-campaign.org/making-peace-how-schools-can-foster-a-more-peaceful-world/)
Role of the Youth in Promoting and Maintaining
Peace in the Community
 A youth is any person between the age of 15 years and 30 years regardless
of the gender.
 Unfortunately, the youth are the backbone of a society and hence they
determine the future of any given society.
 This is because all other age groups, the kids, teenagers, middle aged and
the senior citizens rely on the youth and expect a lot from them.
 This makes the youth to be an important age group in both today’s society
and the future society than other age groups.
 https://medium.com/@hafizahmedshoaib/the-role-of-youth-in-society-b6b067cd003a
 Because of the high dependence on youth in the society, they have a role
to play because the future of their families, communities and the country
lies in their hands.
 The role of the youth is simply to renew, refresh and maintain.
 Youth have a role to renew and refresh the current status of our society
including leadership, innovations, skills etc.
 Youth are expected to advance the current technology, education,
politics, peace of the country. On the other hand, youths have also to
maintain the culture, all good values in the societies, development
projects, etc.
 According to Silvia Diazgranados Ferráns ,peace education lessons will
only take root if peace education is a schoolwide effort that goes beyond
a particular subject, embodied by every adult in the building and
demonstrated throughout the school day.
 There are several ways people, especially the youth, can incorporate
peace education into their work, their studies, to their family and to the
community where they live on how to be empathetic, responsible, and
active learners and leaders:
 Model kindness and empathy
 Repair, don’t punish
 Create democratic space
 Collaborate with other diverse groups
 Integrate service learning
 PEOPLE is the greatest resource of peace.
 Educating people toward becoming peace agents is central to the task of
peace building.

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Module 8: PEACE

 Peace education is a means of socializing children for peace and of

 The goals of peace education vary widely across the world.

 In developing countries, where there is no specific enemy or conflict but a

 In areas where there is no active conflict or violation of human rights,

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