EDUCATING FOR A CIVILIZATION OF PEACE

Dr.L.Mishra

CHALLENGES BEFORE HUMANITY IN PRESENT CENTURY

TERRORISMTERRORISM

POOR POOR LEADERSHIPLEADERSHIP

WARWAR

DESPAIRDESPAIRPOVERTYPOVERTY

DISEASEDISEASE

ENVIORMENTAL ENVIORMENTAL DESTRUCTIONDESTRUCTION

CHALLENGES

CONFLICTCONFLICT VIOLENCEVIOLENCE

CHALLENGES AT DIFFERENT LEVEL

CHALLENGES

Resources for civilization of peace

1. Unity in diversity

2. Equal and Just

3. Prosperous and Benevolent

4. Scientifically progressive

5.Spiritully enlightened

6.Techonologically advanced

EDUCATION

UNESCO Four Pillars of Learning

1. Learning to know• Aware of world issues and their solutions

2. Learning to do• Active involvement in solution building

3. Learning to be– Development of attitudes and commitment to

global citizenship

4. Learning to live together– Demonstrating respect for self and others

EDUCATION AND PEACE

Peace and education are

inseparable aspects of civilization.

No civilization is truly progressive without education.

No education system is truly civilizing unless it is based on the universal principles of peace.

SYNERGISTIC AND ESSENTIAL TASKS FOR EDUCATING PEACE

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Peace-Based Education

Peace-Based Governance

Peace-Based Conflict Resolution

PEACE BASED EDUCATION

To educate every new generation of the world‘s children and youth—with the help of their parents/guardians and teachers—to become peacemakers.

Peace-Based Governance:

To create forums for the leaders of the world at local, regional, national, international, and global levels to study and implement the principles of peaceful governance in their respective communities and institutions.

Peace-Based Conflict Resolution:

• To offer training opportunities in the principles and skills of peace-based conflict prevention and conflict resolution for citizens and leaders at local, regional, national, international, and global levels.

What is Peace EducationPeace education is the

pedagogical efforts to create a world at peace.

By peace, we mean more than the absence of violence (negative peace) (Galtung).

• Peace in its most positive aspects embraces ideas of justice, global sustainability and the eradication of structures that promote insecurity: poverty, hunger, malnutrition and lack of access to resources

Peace Education:

Teaching individuals the information, attitudes, values and behavioural competencies needed to resolve conflict without violence and to build mutually beneficial, harmonious relationships.

Education for Peace (EFP)

Education for Peace (EFP) focuses on helping students, teachers, staff, and parents/guardians to become peacemakers by developing inner, interpersonal, and Intergroup peace. This goal is accomplished by emphasis on the acquisition of unity-based worldviews founded on universal principles of peace, which form the framework for

all subjects of study.

OBJECTIVES OF EDUCATION FOR PEACE

CULTURE OF PEACE

CULTURE OF HEALING

CULTURE OF EXCELLENCE

CULTURE OF PEACE

A Culture of Peace—creating violence-free, bullying-free, harmonious, and peaceful environments throughout the school community.

A culture of healing refers to an environment that enables all members of the school community—students, parents, teachers, administrators, and support staff—to

overcome the trauma they have suffered, individually and/or collectively as a result of their experience of conflict, violence, etc.

• A culture of excellence is an environment in which pursuit of personal and group excellence and critical thinking in all domains of life—intellectual, emotional, social, moral, and spiritual—is actively pursued, encouraged, and realized

These three cultures—peace, healing, and excellence—together comprise the foundations of a civilization of peace. Addressing each of these areas in a systematic manner is one of the unique elements of the EFP Program

and a reason why it is suitable for all societies—those that have experienced the traumas of conflict, violence, and war and those that wish to prevent such trauma in their respective communities.

Major reasons for peace education

To give students the competencies and values they need to build and maintain peace in their

– Families– Peer group– Community– Workplace– Country– World– And within themselves.

Major reasons for peace education

• To constructively deal with the presence of violence in our daily lives– Increased violence and aggression– To ensure that previously warring groups live

together in harmony– Immigrant children from naxlite states who

have experienced are socialized into a peaceful, democratic society.

Major reasons for peace education

• The social and environmental problems in the world now and in the future require all people to collaboratively work together to achieve the necessary solutions – HIV and AIDs– Global warming– Pollution

Peace Education

Cognitive BehaviouralAffective

PEACE EDUCATION

A culture of peace will be achieved

when citizens of the world understand

global problems;

have the skills to resolve conflicts Constructively,

know and live by international standards

of human rights, gender and racial equality,

appreciate cultural diversity and respect the integrity of the Earth.

Such learning cannot be achieved without intentional, sustained and systematic education for peace.