The document summarizes key aspects of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It was adopted in 1989 and recognizes children's rights that should be protected and promoted. These include survival rights covering life and basic needs, development rights involving education and culture, protection rights preserving identity and nationality, and participation rights allowing children to take an active role in their communities. While children have rights, they also have corresponding responsibilities. The document also discusses challenging prejudice and building tolerance, promoting nonviolence, challenging war systems, and sharing Earth's resources as themes of peace.

1. -is adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1989
and entered into force in September 1990
- It recognizes for the first time the children's
rights that should be protected and promoted.

2. Four Categories of Rights
• Survival Rights – covers the child's right to life
and their basic needs.
• Development Rights – it compasses freedom of
thought, conscience and religion, access to
appropriate information, education and cultural
activities.
• Protection Rights- recognizes the vulnerability of
the child by preserving their identity and
nationality.
• Participation Rights- allow children to take an
active role in their communities and nation.

3. Rights & Responsibilities
• While we expect our rights to be
respected, protected and promoted, we
should also be willing to undertake the
corresponding responsibilities.
• When we exercise our rights we need to take
care that we do not violate the rights of the
other person.
• Example: Teachers rights and
responsibilities.
• Students rights and responsibilities.

4. PEACE THEME 2: Challenging
Prejudice and Building Tolerance
• Gordon Allport (1958) asserts that
humans have a propensity toward
prejudice

5. • Prejudice – is the negative feeling or
attitude towards a person with lack of
basis.
• Stereotype – negative opinion about a
person or group based on incomplete
knowledge
• Discrimination- negative actions
toward members of a specific social
group

6. 8 types of Prejudice
• Racism- the belief that one’s cultural or racial
heritage is innately superior to others.
• Sexism- a system of attitudes, actions and
structures that subordinates others on the basis of
their sex.
• Heterosexism- negative attitudes toward lesbians
and gay men.
• Classism- distancing from and perceiving the poor
as “the other”.
• Lingualicism- negative attitudes which members of
dominant language (Che-Hayes, Chen & Athar, n.d)

7. • Ageism- negative attitudes held against the
young or the elderly.
• Lookism- prejudice against those who do not
measure up to set standards of beauty.
- Usually victims ate the overweight, the
undersized & the dark skinned (Nario-Galace
2003)
• Religious Intolerance- prejudice against
those who are followers of religious other
one’s own.

8. Education for Tolerance & Respect
Tolerance- (UNESCO, 1995) is
respecting, accepting and appreciating the
rich diversity of cultures & various forms
of human expression.
- It aims to counter influences that lead to
fear & discrimination
B. Harro (1982) asserts that human are
born with stereotypes and prejudices
already in the society.

9. PEACE THEME 3: Promoting Nonviolence
Nonviolence is the refusal to do harm to
other human as life is sacred & has an
absolute value.
Examples: people power revolution,
Mohandas Gandhi in India that led to the
Hindu from the British occupation and
Martin Luther King, Jr. in the U.S.A that
results to the passage of the Civil Rights of
1964 & Voting Rights Act of 1965 that is
also providing rights to the Black People.

10. Steps in doing Nonviolent Direct
Action
1. Collect data to ascertain that injustices exists.
2. Raise consciousness of people about the issue.
3. Organize constituents and build coalitions.
4. Nonviolent struggles would be the employment of
the various methods of nonviolent action.

11. PEACE THEME 4: CHALLENGING the WAR
SYSTEM
• War is classical or international if it occurs between
rival groups within a state.
• Aggression is the use of armed force by a state
against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or
political independence of another state (www.un-
documents.net).
• A Major Armed Conflict is defined by Project
Ploughshares (2006) as a political conflict in which
armed fighting involves the armed forces of at least
one state or more.

12. Possible Causes of War
• The Penguin Atlas of War and Peace (2003)
indicates that wars today are concentrated in the
poorest countries.
• Territorial Disputes- Huth (1998) as the dis
agreement between states or groups within a states
over their homeland or borders should be fixed.
• A lack of tolerance for differences
• Ideological or power struggles
• A history of colonialism and the process of
decolonization.
• Competition for resources

13. The Effects of War
• Massive death
• Poverty
• Depths
• Destroys property
• Create fear and trauma among the
population
• Disrupts children’s education
• Raze opportunities for tourism

14. PEACE THEME 5: SHARING THE EARTH’S
RESOURCES
The Human Development Report (2003) indicates
that of the world’s 6 billion people, 1.2 billion live on
less than $1/day.
In the Philippines, 4.7 million families or 26.9%
of the population were poor in 2006.
According to the data from the National Statistical
Coordination Board, more than one-quarter (27.9%)
of the population fell below the poverty line the
first semester of 2012, an approximate 1 per cent
increase since 2009. This figure is a much lower
figure as compared to the 33.1% in 1991.

15. Hunger and poverty are the symptoms of these violence.

16. Other Cause of Poverty
• War and Armed Conflicts
• Political systems and Corruptions
• Inequitable distribution of wealth and
resources
• Environmental conditions
• Underemployment
• Lack of Education
• Over consumption
• Greediness

17. PEACE THEME 6:
RESOLVING and
TRANSFORMING
CONFLICTS

18. Conflicts is from the Latin word conflictus which
means striking together with force.
It occurs when ones actions or beliefs are
unaccepted to and resisted by the others.

19. Dealing With Anger in a
Conflict Situation

21. Ways to Change the Form of Anger
1. Recognize that you are angry.
2. Distance yourself from the situation.
3. Release anger physically in indirect form.
4. Use relaxation techniques- breath deeply.
5. Calm your mind- talk to yourself.
6. Apply therapeutic techniques.
7. Turn to spiritual support.
8. Use social support
9. Redirect energy.

22. Thank you for listening!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prepared by:
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Ms. JECHEL CUTIB ANGGO
BSED- II