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.