This document discusses the role of peace education in resolving conflicts. It begins by outlining the objectives of peace education, which are to understand concepts like peace, violence transformation, conflict nature and resolution. It then defines conflict resolution as processes that alleviate or eliminate conflict sources. Peace education teaches conflict resolution skills and provides a nonviolent approach to conflicts. It aims to equip people with constructive coping skills. Peace education inculcates values like love and understanding to build a peaceful global society. It helps understand conflict origins and offers adult and student skills to manage, reduce and minimize conflict.

1. Peace and Conflict Resolution
Role of Peace Education in
resolving conflict
By
M.VIJAYALAKSHMI
Assistant Professor

2. Objectives
At the end of the course the student teacher will
1. Understand the concept of peace education.
2. Understand the dynamics of transformation of
violence into Peace.
3. Understand the nature of conflicts and their
resolution.
4. Imbibe the knowledge, attitudes and skills
needed to achieve and sustain a global culture
of peace.
5. Adopt peace education in the curriculum.

3. Unit – 4:
Peace and Conflict Resolution
4.1 Bases of conflicts - Positive and negative
aspects of conflicts
4.2 Types of conflict -Learning of conflict
management and conflict resolution
4.3 Role of Peace Education in resolving conflict
4.4 Reducing conflicts among students

4. Unit – 4:
Peace and Conflict Resolution
4.3 Role of Peace Education in
resolving conflict

5. Conflict Resolution
• Teaching conflict resolution does not just
lead to more peaceful and productive
schools.
• Conflict resolution is a range of processes
aimed at alleviating or eliminating sources of
conflict.
• The phrase “conflict resolution” is sometimes
used interchangeably with the term dispute
resolution or alternative dispute resolution

6. Definitions of Conflict Resolution
• “Conflict resolution is a range of methods for
alleviating or eliminating sources of conflict. ”
—Wikipeadia
• “Conflict resolution is the understanding of
dynamics of human negotiation among
confiding interest groups and how to achieve
mutual agreement. ”
—Bill Warters (2000)

7. Role of Peace Education in Resolving Conflict
• Conflict is a part of life, and its nature is neither
good nor had. An important aspect of conflict is
that it includes potential for change, and it is in
this context that Peace Education addresses the
issues of conflict, conflict resolution and its
management techniques to teach students how
to take creative approaches to the conflict
situations. Thus students can gain knowledge
and skills related to personal growth and
development, self-esteem and respect of others,
and developing competence for a nonviolent
approach to future conflict situations.

8. • Conflictability can be understood as the
central goal and core of Peace Education.
Hence the aim of Peace Education is to
provide people with the skills they need to
cope with conflict in a constructive way.
• The international role in Peace Education is
also expanding in preventing escalation and
reconciliation (understanding) of conflict
between warring parties of individual,
community and international level.

9. • If we intend to create a peaceful society we
must renew our educational society, which
would not have any scope for inculcating human
values. It is Peace Education which inculcates
and builds love, friendship and international
understanding, respect and care for the
community life, ecological integrity, social and
economic justice, democracy and nonviolence to
build a sustainable and peaceful global society.
For those in the midst of conflict, Peace
Education may sow the seeds of understanding
and provide nonviolent tools where violence is
the accepted norm.

10. • Peace Education helps to understand where
and why conflict occurs; and also offering
skills (for both adults and students) to
manage, reduce, and work toward
minimizing conflict.

11. • As J. Krishnamurthi stressed “Without an
integrated understanding of life, our
individual and collective problems will only
deepen and extend. The purpose of education
is not to produce mere scholars, technicians
and job hunters, but integrated men and
women who are free of fear; for only between
such human beings can there be enduring
peace.” For those who are emerging from
conflict, Peace Education presents an
opportunity to confront the historical myths
that often contribute to conflict.

12. Peace Education is a platform to become
skilled at conflict resolution techniques in a
classroom through real-life simulation
exercises, improving persuasion skills to solve
problems, to develop reflection skills, to
sharpen analytical skills that are necessary
for a clear understanding of the conflict, to
promote listening skills, to stimulate creative
thinking and developing competence in
problem-solving skills and an ongoing
emotional experience to learn resolving
issues.

13. In this aspect Peace Education lends a hand
in accepting cultural and social differences,
recognizing mutual interests in group to learn
to disagree without animosity.
• Inclusion of conflict resolution principles in
the Peace Education helps students’ better
understanding towards the relationship
between academics and the real world.

14. Sources are taken from
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•Web sources