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PEACE
EDUCATION
Presented by: CMU CWTS
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WHAT IS PEACE
Peace defined means the
absence of war. War and
peace have always been not
only military but also political
issues advantage.
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PEACE EDUCATION
Is related to the creation of values and skills
that help students achieve fullness a life that
embraces all people. Education peace relates
to aid learners to recognize many forms and
causes violence and promote values and skills
to live society. Peace marketing is trying to
influence social behavior, change attitudes,
habits, and not to the marketing person, but to
the benefits of society in general.
“I have no enemies”
-Thorfinn
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EFFECT OF PEACE ON EDUCATION

Peace can help Peace education helps Peace education Peace education
young people gain prevents the activities promote
achieve the right to
knowledge, enhance conflict resolution that
basic quality their skills in the area of
emergence of promotes peace and
education. peace, and form an conflicts and values such as respect
attitude about the creates conditions for human rights,
meaning of peace in for peace in the freedom and
human life. confidence.
world.
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EFFECT OF PEACE ON EDUCATION

Peace education aims to help students; students acquire the skills

needed to solve unwise conflict resolution problems and
strengthen these skills for active and responsible action by the
public to promote peace values.

Its purpose is to prevent a conflict in advance or to promote the

development of people and society in a peaceful way, based on
the principles of harm, tolerance, equality, respect for social justice
and social justice.
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UNITED NATIONS STATED

stated that every year on September 21 worldwide observance of
International Peace Day. The General Assembly announced that it is a
day dedicated to strengthening the ideals of peace in all peoples
and among nations.

Page, J. (2008) stated that “peace education is now well recognized

within international legal instruments and within critical educational
literature as an important aspect of education”
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FIVE SPECIFIC ETHICAL
TRADITIONS
Ethics of Virtue
is person rather than action based: it looks at
the virtue or moral character of the person
carrying out an action, rather than at ethical
duties and rules, or the consequences of
particular actions. ... A good person is
someone who lives virtuously - who
possesses and lives the virtues.
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FIVE SPECIFIC ETHICAL
TRADITIONS
Consequence ethics
is a philosophical approach to morality by
which the results of an action determine the
potential good of the action. Consequence
ethics suggests weighing the consequences
of choices and selecting actions likely to
result in a good or the best effect.
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FIVE SPECIFIC ETHICAL
TRADITIONS
Conservative political ethics
(also known as political morality or public
ethics) is the practice of making moral
judgements about political action and political
agents. It covers the ethics of process (or the
ethics of office), which deals with public
officials and the methods they use.
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FIVE SPECIFIC ETHICAL
TRADITIONS
Aesthetic ethics
guiding individuals to beliefs that have some
sort of “aesthetic merit or that makes us more
beautiful in virtue of believing them” (Chignell,
2013).
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FIVE SPECIFIC ETHICAL
TRADITIONS
Care ethics
where care can be understood as a key element of
peace and peace education as it promotes
confidence and cooperation with others. On principle,
it would seem, a care ethic guides the moral agent to
recognize relational interdependency, care for the self
and others, cultivate the skills of attention, response,
respect, and completion, and maintain just and caring
relationships.
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ROLE OF EDUCATION IN
PROMOTING PEACE
In today's society, it is extremely important that education in
various forms would encourage people to understand these
challenges better and their impact on the personal,
community, country.

Peace education for peace is the key to building a peaceful

culture. The United Nations has called on each country "to
ensure that children from the very early age receive
educational benefits so that they can resolve any dispute
peacefully and with respect for human dignity and tolerance."
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REASONS WHY PEACE EDUCATION
MUST BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS

Capability Conflict Responsibility Hope

To provide students with the To constructively handle the after- To develop social responsibility To provide hope for a better future
capability and values they must have effects of war or conflict and the which is needed in the 21st century. for the younger members of society,
to build and sustain peace in their presence of violence in individuals because it indicates that their
respective families, friends, “daily lives like increased violence society is aware of its ills and is
community, workplace, country, and aggression.” striving to remedy them in order to
world, and within themselves. build a better place to live.
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UNIVERSITIES/COLLEGE PEACE INITIATIVE

peace education fights for efforts to tackle violence as people's ability to
analyze problems act critically and participate in encouraging innocent conflict
resolution and, finally, cherish harmonious and cooperative relationships
between people. These are all essential features for those who want to
influence peace from the most intimate levels to the world.

Peace education provides people with the means they can relate to
themselves, their immediate environment and the world. In order to achieve
this, it acts on cognitive, emotional, moral and political aspects of creating
content conveys concepts, teaches procedures and encourages attitude
towards peace.
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UNIVERSITIES/COLLEGE PEACE INITIATIVE

Peace Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field based on political
sciences, sociology, history, anthropology, theology, psychology,
philosophy, and other fields:

to understand the causes of the armed conflict;

to develop ways to prevent and deal with war, genocide, terrorism,
serious human rights abuses; and
to create peaceful and fair systems and societies.
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ROLE OF THE YOUTH

The modern world is becoming smaller, highly
integrated and technologically more advanced. It is
also becoming highly fragmented, less peaceful and
unsafe for both present and future generations.

The world today is passing through an environment

full of tension, violence, declining values, injustices,
reduced tolerance and respect for human rights.

The gun culture has already taken a dominant position

in most of the developing countries, threatening the
future of the youths who deserve a peaceful and
“Peace is always
better quality of life.
Beautiful”
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ROLE OF THE YOUTH

You, as part of the youth populace, constitute the
richest wealth of a country. Your role is to:

Develop quality of catholicity of personal integrity,

personal discipline and open mindedness.

Share your inputs to any development program

that will go a long way in achieving desired
objectives. Your period (the youthful period) is a
period of passions, emotions, activities and vigor.
There is no doubt that there is a greater need to
create a culture of peace and conflict free
“Peace is always
environment.
Beautiful”
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ROLE OF THE YOUTH

“BE THE CHANGE.” You can do this by changing

your attitudes towards people, traditions, religion
and beliefs.

Learn to combine their enthusiasm with patience,

realizing the importance of living together and
should be responsible to defend the frontiers of
peace and non-violence.

“Peace is always
Beautiful”
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ROLE OF THE YOUTH

Equally understand your leadership capacity by
educating yourself on the need for community
leadership and taking opportunities available to
prioritize leadership development programs
especially within you in rural areas because lack of
knowledge about basic decision making impedes
progress and therefore results in conflicts.

Forming a new phalanx of peace missionaries and

NGO network in the grassroots, concentrating on
value education and spiritual renewal among
children.
“Peace is always
Beautiful”
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ROLE OF THE YOUTH

In the area of ethnic development, forge links
between cultural minorities and popularize shared
values, shared culture and traditions handed down
from generations to generations.

In the political area of development, engage or

join in political awareness building, force reforms
in bureaucracy to ensure good governance,
accountability, transparency and citizenry
participation.

“Peace is always
Beautiful”
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ROLE OF THE YOUTH

At the international scene, become peace
ambassadors of their respective countries,
promoting exchange programs in education,
culture, science and technology, sports and
games and in tourism promotions to link all the
youth of the region and the world in the pursuit
and maintenance of peace and conflict.

Learn new skills to deal with conflict in non-violent

ways and create a community that lives by a credo
of non-violence and multicultural appreciation.

“Peace is always
Beautiful”
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ROLE OF THE YOUTH

This however must be done with the
present crop of people whom we have
termed as the leaders of ‘yesterday’ given
the necessary chance and creating the
opportunity for the youths to act with their
enthusiast. With all this and with every
youth having at the back of his mind that
wherever he goes, peace is with him
because without peace, he cannot live,
then the 21stcentury would be a century of “Peace is always
tolerance, peace and conflict free Beautiful”
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