Importance Of Education For Peace

The different approaches to peace education are ‘Education for Peace' and ‘Education for Peace'. Education for peace is the education inorder to create preconditions for the achievement of peace and education about peace involves the developmental and practice of instructions and processes that comprise a peaceful social order. Recent global events in the political, cultural and religious spheres have caused division, discrimination, and distrust among the masses, thereby unsetting the mantle of peace and harmony between communities. It is necessary that children are taught a pedagogy of peace that includes recognition and rejection of violence, understanding of differences through dialogue, critical awareness of injustice, social justice and imaginative understanding of peace.

Peace Education highlights the essential unity of humanity and emphasizes the importance of …show more content…
In a number of countries, an emphasis is placed on improving the school environment so that it becomes a microcosm of the more peaceful and just society that is the objective of peace education. This creates a consistency between the messages of the curriculum and the school setting, between the overt and the ‘hidden' curriculum. Interventions on the level of the school environment tend to address how children's rights are either upheld or denied in school, discipline methods, how the classroom and the school day is organized, and how decisions are made. Training of teachers and administrators is critical to enabling teachers to examine these issues from the perspective of peace education.

Peace education can be incorporated into the school curriculum in several ways:
1. The formal curriculum
2. The informal curriculum
3. The hidden