This document discusses peace education and a holistic understanding of peace. It defines negative peace as the absence of direct violence, and positive peace as a presence of well-being and just relationships across various levels from personal to global. Peace education is presented as an ethical imperative and transformative education that uses a three phase process of cognitive awareness, affective concern, and taking practical action. The goal of peace education is to transform current human conditions and change social structures and patterns of thought that have created issues.

1. A T R A N S F O R M A T I V E R E S P O N S E T O
M A J O R S O C I E T A L C H A L L E N G E S
P E A C E
E D U C A T I O N

2. A H O L I S T I C
U N D E R S T A N D I N G O F
P E A C E
• I T I S B E C A U S E O U R I D E A S
S H A P E O U R F E E L I N G S A N D
A C T I O N S A S WE L L A S H O W WE
L I V E A N D H O W WE R E L A T E
WI T H O T H E R S .

3. A H O L I S T I C
U N D E R S T A N D I N G
O F P E A C E
• P E A C E - WA S D E F I N E D A S
A B S E N C E O F WA R O R D I R E C T
V I O L E N C E
• A B S E N C E O F D E A T H A N D
D E S T R U C T I O N A S A R E S U L T
O F WA R A N D
P H Y S I C A L /D I R E C T V I O L E N C E
• P E A C E I S T H E A B S E N C E O F
V I O L E N C E , N O T O N L Y
P E R S O N A L O R D I R E C T B U T
A L S O S T R U C T U R A L O R

4. PEACE
NEGATIVE PEACE – ABSENCE OF
DIRECT/PHYSICALVIOLENCE
DIRECT VIOLENCE – WAR, TORTURE,
CHILD AND WOMAN ABUSE
POSITIVE PEACE – PRECENCE OF
CONDITION OF WELL BEING AND JUST
RELATIONSHIPS;SOCIAL,
ECONOMIC,POLITICAL,ECOLOGICAL
STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE – POVERTY,
HUNGER
SOCIO CULTURAL VIOLENCE – RACISM, SEXISM
RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE
ECOLOGICAL VIOLENCE – POLUTION,OVER
CONSUMPTION

5. P E A C E B E T WE E N H U M A N S
A N D E A R T H A N D B E Y O N D
• P E R S O N A L P E A C E – S E L F
R E S P E C T I N N E R
R E S O U R C E S :L O V E H O P E
• I N T E R P E R S O N A L P E A C E –
R E S P E C T F O R O T H E R P E R S O N S
J U S T I C E ,T O L E R A N C E ,C O O P E R A T I
O N
• I N T E R G R O U P /S O C I A L P E A C E –
R E S P E C T F O R O T H E R G R O U P
WI T H I N N A T I O N J U S T I C E ,
T O L E R A N C E , C O O P E R A T I O N
• G L O B A L P E A C E – R E S P E C T F O R
O T H E R N A T I O N S J U S T I C E ,
T O L E R A N C E , C O O P E R T I O N
• R E S P E C T F O R E N V I R O N M E N T

6. T Y P O L O G Y O F
V I O L E N C E
LEVEL
FORM
OF VIOLENCE
PERSONAL INTERPERSONAL
COMMUNITY
NATIONAL GLOBAL
DIRECT/PHYSICAL SUICIDE/DRUG ABUSE DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE,VIOLENT
CRIMES
CIVIL WAR,VIOLENT
CRIMES,HUMAN RIGHTS
ABUSE
CONVENTIONAL WAR
NUCLEAR WAR,HUMAN
RIGHTS ABUSES
STRUCTURAL/ECONOMIC,
POLITICAL,SOCIO
CULTURAL,PSYCHOLOGIC
AL
POWERLESSNESS
ALIENATION
LOW SELF ESTEEM
ANXIETY
LOCAL
INEQUALITIES,POVERTY,H
UNGER,PREJUDICE,ENEM
YIMAGES
CULTURAL DOMINATION
RACISM,SEXISM,RELIGIOU
S INTOLERANCE
NATINAL
INEQUALITIES,POVERTY,H
UNGER,PREJUDICE
ENEMY IMAGES,
CULTURAL
DOMINATION,RACISM,SEXI
SM,RELIGIOUS
INTOLERANCE
GLOBAL
INEQUALITIES,POVERTY,H
UNGER,PREJUDICE/ENEM
Y IMAGES, CULTURAL
DOMINATION,RACISM,SEXI
SM,RELIGIOUS
INTOLERANCE.
ECOLOGICAL OVER CONSUMPTION OVER
CONSUMPTION,POLLUTIO
N
OVER
CONSUMPTION,POLLUTIO
N,CHEMICAL AND
BIOLOGICAL
WARFARE,NUCLEAR
POWER RADIATION
OVER
CONSUMPTION/POLLUTIO
N,CHEMICAL AND
BIOLOGICAL
WARFARE,NUCLEAR
POWER RADIATION

7. P E A C E E D U C A T I O N
I S A N E T H I C A L
I M P E R A T I V E

8. P E A C E E D U C A T I O N
A S
T R A N S F O R M A T I V E
E D U C A T I O N

9. T H E P E A C E A B L E
T E A C H I N G -L E A R N I N G
P R O C E S S
COGNITIVE PHASE
(BEING
AWARE,UNDERSTANDING)
AFFECTIVE PHASE (BEING
CONCERNED
RESPONDING, VALUING)
ACTIVE PHASE (TAKING
PRACTICALACTION)

10. WH Y E D U C A T E
F O R P E A C E ?
• I T S E E K S T O T R A N S F O M T H E
P R E S E N T H U M A N C O N D I T I O N
B Y C H A N G I N G S O C I A L
S T R U C T U R E S P A T T E R N S
T H O U G H T T H A T H A V E C R E A T E D .
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