Peace Education

PEACE EDUCATION
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY RELATIONS

CONFLICT RESOLUTION TRAINING
• Peace education programs centered on conflict resolution typically focus on the
social-behavioural symptoms of conflict; they train individuals to resolve inter-
personal disputes through negotiation and (peer) mediation. The main elements
of these programs include: learning to manage anger, "fighting fair"; improving
communication through skills such as listening, turn-taking, identifying needs, and
separating facts from emotions. Participants are encouraged to take responsibility
for their actions and to brainstorm together on compromises.
DEMOCRACY EDUCATION
• Peace education programs centered on democracy education typically focus on
the political processes associated with conflict. They postulate that with an
increase in democratic participation, societies are less likely to resolve conflict
through violence and war. At the same time, "A democratic society needs the
commitment of citizens who accept the inevitability of conflict as well as the
necessity for tolerance" (U.S. Department of State, The Culture of Democracy,
emphasis added).[19] Programs of this kind foster a conflict-positive orientation in
the community by training students to view conflict as a platform for creativity and
growth.
JUSTICE EDUCATION
• Education for justice is the process of promoting the rule of law (RoL) through

educational activities at all levels. Education for justice teaches the next
generation about crime prevention, to better understand and address problems
that can undermine the rule of law. This approach promotes peace and
encourages students to engage actively in their communities and future
professions.
HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION
• Peace education programs centered on raising awareness of human rights
typically focus on policies that humanity ought to adopt to move closer to a
peaceful global community. The aim is to engender a commitment among
participants to a vision of structural peace in which all individual members of the
human race can exercise personal freedoms and enjoy legal protection from
violence, oppression and indignity.
CRITICAL PEACE EDUCATION
• Modern forms of peace education relate to new scholarly explorations and
applications of techniques in peace education internationally, in plural
communities, and with individuals. Critical Peace Education (Bajaj 2008, 2015;
Bajaj & Hantzopoulos 2016; Trifonas & Wright 2013) is an emancipatory pursuit
that seeks to link education to the goals and foci of social justice - disrupting
inequality through critical pedagogy (Freire 2003). Critical peace education
addresses the critique that peace education is imperial and impository mimicking
the 'interventionism' of Western peacebuilding by foregrounding local practices
and narratives into peace education
WORLDVIEW TRANSFORMATION
• Some approaches to peace education start from psychological insights, which

recognize the developmental nature of human psychosocial dispositions. Conflict-
promoting attitudes and behaviours characterize earlier phases of human
development; unity-promoting attitudes and behaviours emerge in later phases of
healthy development.
• Understand the nature and origins of violence and its effects on both victim and perpetrator.
• Create frameworks for achieving peace and peaceful, creative societies.
• Sharpen awareness about the existence of unpeaceful relationships between people and within and between nations.
• Investigate the causes of conflicts and violence embedded within perceptions, values and attitudes of individuals as well as within social
and political structures of society.
• Encourage the search for alternatives and possible nonviolent skills.
• Equip children and adults with personal conflict resolution skills.
• Show people that violence and war are learned and not an intrinsic part of human nature and that it is possible to resolve conflict
peacefully.
• Create a more peaceful world where all of us may become agents for change. Education for Peace gives us the skills that will assist in
achieving peaceful societies.
• Correct the limited understanding of peace held by many people that it is the absence, however contrived, of direct violence, of
wounding and killing.
• Create a better learning environment where conflict and relationships may be explored.
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PEACE EDUCATION

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY RELATIONS

• Education for justice is the process of promoting the rule of law (RoL) through

• Some approaches to peace education start from psychological insights, which

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