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1. Peace Education
By
Dr. Rajib Saha
Assistant Professor
Department of Teacher Education
The West Bengal University of Teachers’ Training, Education Planning and Administration
Kolkata 700019, West Bengal, India
Email: rajibkalyani2012@gmail.com
23rd May 2021

2. Introduction
Peace education is the process of acquiring the values, knowledge, attitudes, skills, and behaviors to live in
harmony with oneself, others, and the natural environment.
Peace Education is grounded in active citizenship, preparing learners for assiduous
participation in a democracy, through problem-posing and problem-solving education and
a commitment to transformative action in our societies.
John Dewey
(1938).
Peace Education, broadly defined, is the cornerstone of a culture of peace.
Micheal Wessells
(1994).
Peace Education is a mechanism for the transformation from a culture of violence to a
culture of peace through a process of ‘conscientization’.
Freire (2006)

3. Introduction
Abebe et. al.
(2006)
Peace Education is a process of developing knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviours and values that
enable learners to identify and understand sources of local and global issues and acquire positive and
appropriate sensitivities to these problems. It helps to resolve conflicts and to attain justice in a non-
violent way and live by universal standards of human rights and equity by appreciating cultural
diversity, respect for the earth and for each other.

4. Aims of Peace Education
 Understand the nature and origins of violence and its effects on both victim and
perpetrator.
 Create frameworks for achieving peace and peaceful, creative societies.
 Sharpen awareness about the existence of unpeaceful relationships between
people and within and between nations.
 Investigate the causes of conflicts and violence embedded within perceptions,
values and attitudes of individuals as well as within social and political structures
of society.
 Encourage the search for alternatives and possible nonviolent skills.
 Equip children and adults with personal conflict resolution skills.

5.  Show people that violence and war are learned and not an intrinsic part of human nature
and that it is possible to resolve conflict peacefully.
 Create a more peaceful world where all of us may become agents for change. Education for
Peace gives us the skills that will assist in achieving peaceful societies.
 Correct the limited understanding of peace held by many people that it is the absence,
however contrived, of direct violence, of wounding and killing.
 Create a better learning environment where conflict and relationships may be explored.
 appropriating intellectual and emotional development of the individuals;
 developing a sense of social responsibility and solidarity;
 observing the principles of equality and fraternity towards all;
Aims of Peace Education

6.  enabling the individual to acquire a critical understanding of the
problems at national and international levels;
 creating willingness for continuous learning;
 accepting and participating in free discussions;
 taking decisions on a rational basis;
 appreciating other’s cultures; and
 overcoming obstacles towards promotion of peace.
Aims of Peace Education

7. Forms of Peace Education
 Conflict resolution training
 Democracy education
 Justice education
 Human rights education
 Worldview transformation
 Critical peace education
 Yogic peace education

8. Towards Positive Peace
Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
If we wish to achieve peace we must maintain that
inner harmony, that poise of the soul, which are
the essential elements of peace. It cannot be
achieved by organizations. It can come only when
our minds become endowed with generosity and
goodwill towards all. We must be filled with the
moral power of love and the vision of spiritual
unity. We have to solve our problems through the
help of our higher nature’
John Baylis
Peace Education is designed in such a way as
to ‘alter attitudes regarding peace in the hope
that this will stimulate changes in structure’
Johan Galtung
peace must not only be conceived of as the
absence of war and direct violence (negative
peace) but rather, working towards peace as
the means to the realization of conditions
leading to a maximal reduction of structural
violence (positive peace)

9. Peace Education in Action
Haavelsrud (1975) suggested that peace education, as in the case of all education, should be
conducted in three areas: (1) Information; (2) Attitudes; and (3) Action.
 Emphasis should be on the participatory and self-
initiated learning
 Preservation and advancement of peace should
be integrated into discussions
 Development of curricula on peace and practical
approaches
 Imparting of peace related knowledge through
media
 Imparting of the knowledge through religious
institutions
 Knowledge dissemination through social work
projects
 Cooperation and collaboration in the fields of
education
 Selection of information and evaluation
 Eliminating bias in conflict information
 Organising campaigns, conducting seminars and
talks on peace
 Giving training to the educators of peace to cater
to all sections of society
 Promoting volunteerism to provide learning
opportunities
 Maintaining consistent motivation levels to
promote peace

10. Thank You
Stay Cautious, Stay Safe.