impotance of peace education

 IMPORTANCE OF PEACE EDUCATION 

1.     Upholding Human Dignity

Education that seeks to uphold human dignity is often referred to as human rights education, which is within the umbrella we call peace education. In peace education, one of the central concerns is the promotion of human dignity and wellbeing because of the conviction that this is a foundation for peace

2.     Challenging Prejudice and Building Tolerance

Peace education develops the patience to cope with different problem.

3.     Promoting Nonviolence

Nonviolence or ahimsa is the refusal to do harm to other humans as life is sacred and is an absolute value. It is anchored in the belief that humans have the potential to change.

4.     Challenging the War System

If wars begin in the minds of men, then it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.” Peace education is one concrete pathway to challenge war. “Peace education seeks to develop a global perspective on the problems and an understanding that humans are a single species”  

Instill a desire for peace and to detest war and violence understand the meaning of co-existence. Reduce differences between people of various states in India and other countries. Accept each other’s religion.

It should mean not only absence of war, but violence in all forms such as conflict, threat to life, social degradation, discrimination, oppression, exploitation, poverty, injustice and so on. Peace cannot be built as long as violent social structures exist in society.

5.     Resolving and Transforming Conflict

Our mind always is in the state of what will have to do or not in problematic situation so there is need to implement peace education.

Peace education promotes the knowledge, skills and attitudes to help people prevent conflict occurring, resolve conflicts peacefully, or create conditions for peace

6.     Sharing the Earth’s Resources

 

7.     Caring for the Earth

8.     Cultivating Inner Peace

9.       Inner peace is peace with self. One, ‘whose mind remains calm in the middle of               sorrows, whose thirst for pleasure has altogether disappeared, and who is free from         passion, fear and anger’ is said to have achieved inner peace.

For example, harmony and peace with oneself, good health, and absence of inner conflicts, joy, sense of freedom, insight, spiritual peace, feelings of kindness, compassion, and content, appreciation of art.

 

 

Peace is the eradication of poverty.

It is the economic wellbeingness of people Politics: Peace is the outcome of democracy. Peace results from good governance (power) Anti-military: Stop war and there is peace Law: Peace is law and order Social harmony: Resolve conflicts between diverse groups. Integrate such groups together through fair distribution of justice

Develop Social peace is ‘learning to live together

peace between man and man, harmony arising from human relationships at all levels, conflict compromise and resolution, love, friendship, unity, mutual understanding, acceptance, co-operation, brotherhood, tolerance of differences, democracy, community-building, human rights, morality.

To help develop knowledge and understanding of:

•World Heritage sites as a testimony of peace, human rights and democracy,

 •The importance of racial non-discrimination, tolerance and respect for all people and their cultures. Knowledge

 •Could focus on value foundations for personality formation

 •Development of social skills necessary to live together in harmony.

•To enable students to understand the value-foundations of peace.

•The need to promote skills for the peaceful resolution of conflicts.

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Individual or self- development level

IMPORTANCE OF PEACE EDUCATION IN SCHOOL LEVEL:

•Develop a more humanistic management approach.

•Improve human relations between, teacher-student, teacher-teacher, student- student, etc

. •Help develop good attitudes in students and teachers as well, e.g.co-operation, mutual respect.

•Help healthy emotional development in students.

 •Facilitate socialization through participation in interactive and cooperative learning activities

•Improve students’ discipline and moral behaviour.

 •Develop creativity both in students and teachers.

 •Improve standard of quality of teaching and learning.