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2. The 54 Articles of the CRC describe
4 categories of Rights:
1. Survival rights- covers a child’s right to life and the
needs that are most basic to existence.
2. Development rights- include what children require
to reach their fullest potential.
3. Protection rights- recognizes the vulnerability of
children by preserving their identity &
nationality.
4. Participation rights- allow children to take an
active role in their communities and
nations.

3. Rights & Responsibilities
While we expect our rights to be respected,
protected & promoted, we should also be
willing to undertake the corresponding
responsibilities.
We cannot think only of the promotion of
our own rights without thinking of the rights
of others.
When we exercise our rights we need to
take care that we do not violate or deny other
people’s rights.

4. Peace Theme 2: Challenging Prejudice
& Building Tolerance
• Gordon Allport (1958) asserts that humans have a
propensity toward justice.
 Prejudice is the negative feeling or attitude towards
a person or a group even if it lacks basis
 Stereotype refers to the negative opinion about a
person or group based on incomplete knowledge
 Discrimination refers to negative actions toward
members of a specific social group that may be
manifested in avoidance , aversion or even violence

5. Types of Prejudice
• Racism- the belief that one’s own cultural or
racial heritage is innately superior to that of
others
• Sexism- a system of attitudes, actions &
structures that subordinates others on the
basis of their sex
• Heterosexism-negative attitudes toward
lesbian and gay men
• Classism-distancing from perceiving the poor
as “the other”

6. • Linguicism-negative attitudes which members
of dominant language groups hold against
non-dominant language groups
• Ageism-negative attitudes held against the
young or the elderly
• Looksism-prejudice against those who do not
measure up to set standards of beauty.
• Religious intolerance-prejudice against those
who are the followers of religious other than
one’s own

7. Education for Tolerance & Respect
• One effective way to challenge prejudice is by
teaching tolerance
• Tolerance is not tolerating what is unjust but it is
respecting , accepting and appreciating the rich
diversity of cultures and various forms of human
expression ( UNESCO, 1995)
• Education for tolerance aims to counter
influences that lead to fear , discrimination and
exclusion of others
• Tolerance recognizes that others have the right
to be who they are

8. Peace Theme 3: Promoting Nonviolence
Nonviolence is the refusal to do harm to
other humans as life is sacred & is an absoute
value.
It is anchored on the belief that humans have
the potential to change
Mohandas Gandhi, the man who led the
people of India out of british subjugation held
the following beliefs about nonviolence:

9. Why Nonviolence?
 It is both an ethical and moral choice
 In Jainism, it is taught that a wise person “does not
kill, nor consent to the killings by others”
 Lao Tzu , founder of Taoism taught that “weapons
are instruments of evil and not of a good ruler”
 In Buddhism, the precept “not to kill “ is the
foundation for all Buddhist action.
 Everyone is believed to have been born with a
Buddha nature so “ no one has the right to take the
life of another”.