Strengthening peace building through Science and Technology education

Summary:

Massaquoi divided his article into 9 subtopics discussing the causes of conflicts and the
requirements of peace, peace building strategies and actions, and how science and technology
education can strengthen peace building programs.
In most conflicts poverty and inequitable distribution of wealth play a major role. One of
the root causes of conflicts in most societies are the lack of respect and denial of human rights.
In addition, breakdown in communication resulting to misunderstanding among nations often
induce conflicts which adversely affects sustainable development in many ways. War destroys
human resource base. Also national infrastructure and environment are vastly damaged for
these are usually considered as military targets for the prosecutions of the war. Once a conflict
takes place the society is completely destabilized, the peace building process will be
necessitated since there is need to rehabilitate through a set of actions, predominantly
diplomatic and economic, that strengthen and rebuild governmental infrastructure and
institutions in order to avoid relapse into conflict. Many peace building actions requires inputs of
science and technology. Aspe

he goal to address challenges on conflict, prevention of conflict, post-conflict restoration and the
role of scientific and technical knowledge in the process; examine the role of science education
in the peace-building process; to achieve to closely examine the strategies and actions used in
peace-building and show where and how science can improve their effectiveness,