Peace Education for Development
Journal Title: Research Journal of Philosophy & Social Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 2
Abstract
Peace education is an essential component of quality basic education. This paper defines peace education as the process of promoting the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values needed to bring about behaviour changes that will enable children, youth and adults to prevent conflict and violence, both overt and structural; to resolve conflict peacefully; and toi create the conditions conducive to peace, whether at an intrapersonal, interpersonal, intergroup, national or international level. The definition represents a convergence of ideas that have been developed through the practical experiences of UNICEF peace education programmes in developing countries. It is also reflective of the thinking of a number of theorists in this field and of much peace education work that has been carried out in industrialised countries. It is UNICEF’s position that peace education has a place in all societies- not only in countries undergoing armed conflict or emergencies. Because lasting behaviour change in children and adults only occurs over time, effective peace education is necessarily a long-term intervention. While often based in schools and other learning environments, peace education should ideally involve the entire community.
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Subhash Singh
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