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Docshare - Tips Peace Education
A Transformative Response
to Major Societal
Challenges
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Topic Outline
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After reading this chapter you should be
able to:
1.Define the concept of peace in a holistic
way;
2.Explain the contribution or importance
of peace education in the quest for
positive social changes or transformation;
3.Identify and explain the key themes of
peace education.
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INTRODUCTION
Peace education is the process of acquiring
the values, the knowledge and developing
the attitudes, skills, and behaviors to live in
harmony with oneself, with others, and with the
natural environment.
The greatest resource for building a culture of
peace are the people themselves, for it is through
them that peaceful relationships are created.
Thus, educating people toward becoming peace
agents is central to the task of peace building.
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A Holistic Understanding of Peace
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A Holistic Understanding of Peace
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A Holistic Understanding of Peace
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A Holistic Understanding of Peace
The non-exploitative relationships mentioned above refer
not only to relationships between humans but also those
between human and nature.
Peace with nature is considered the foundation of “positive
peace” (Mische, 1987). It is because the earth is ultimately
the source of our survival, physical sustenance, health and
wealth; it is not possible to provide for human survival if
nature’s capacity to renew itself is seriously impaired.
I t must also be remembered that human behavior is
intimately related to the availability of basic resources
9(Barnaby, 1989).
Frameworks of Peace
NEGATIVE POSITIVE
PEACE PEACE PEACE
STRUCTURAL
VIOLENCE
DIRECT
VIOLENCE
SOCIO-
CULTURAL
VIOLENCE
ECOLOGICAL
VIOLENCE
VIOLENCE
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PEA
CE
BET
LEVELS OF PEACE WE
EN
HU
MA
NS
AN Harmony with
D Nature
GLOBALTHE PEACE
EAR
Respect for other
TH
nations, Justice,
Harm AN
Tolerance,
Harmony
ony D with Others
with Cooperation
BEY
the INTERGROUP/SOCIAL PEACE
ON
Sacre Respect for other
d
D groups within
nation, Justice, Tolerance, Harmony
Sourc Cooperation with the
e INTERPERSONAL PEACE Self
Respect for other persons, Justice, Tolerance,
Cooperation
PERSONAL PEACE
11 Self-respect, Inner resources: love, hope
Types of Violence
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Types of Violence
Conceptual map of Violence done by Toh
Swee-Hin and Virginia Cawagas (1987). It is
a typology that indicates the various types/
forms of violence and some
examples/illustrations of each type in the
personal, interpersonal, social and global
levels.
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Types of Violence
Level Personal Interpersonal/ National Global
community
Type(s
)
Direct/Physical Suicide, drug Domestic Civil war, Conventional
abuse violence, violent violent crimes, war, nuclear
crimes human rights war, human
abuses rights abuses
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Types of Violence
Level Personal Interpersonal/ National Global
community
Type(s
)Ecological Over- Over- Over- Over-
consumption consumption, consumption, consumption,
pollution pollution, pollution,
chemical and chemical and
biological biological
warfare warfare
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Peace Education as Transformative
Education
Peace education or an education that promotes a
culture of peace, is essentially transformative, because:
It cultivates the knowledge base, skills, attitudes and values
that seek to transform people’s behaviors.
This means that the learning process utilized in peace
education is holistic and it tries to address the cognitive,
affective and active dimensions of the learner.
The action towards transformation may include action
against prejudice and the war system, or action for social
and economic justice. Paying attention to all these levels-
the cognitive, affective and active- increases the possibility
that the peace perspective or value that is being cultivated
would be internalized.
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DISCUSSION
THE PEACEABLE TEACHING-LEARNING
PROCESS
COGNITIVE PHASE
(Being aware,
Understanding)
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LEARNING TASK
1. In your opinion, why is peace education
important in our present time?
2. The list of Peace Education’s schema of
knowledge, skills and attitudes and
values is exhaustive. What else can you
add to each (knowledge, skills and
attitudes)? Explain.
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