Bautista, Shermine Joyce M.

The Teacher and the Community, School Culture and Organizational Leadership 2:30 – 4:00 TTH

Peace Education

Strategies for
achieving peace

Peacekeeping
Peacebuilding
involves police or
military action and uses peace education
strives to achieve as a means of creating
peace through a more stable and
strength and force. peaceful culture,
thereby preventing
violent incidents from
occurring.

Peacemaking

involves
communication skills
like conflict resolution
and mediation
strategies for
interacting non-
violently with others.
 Ten Primary Objectives of Peace Education.
Appreciate the Concept of Peace
Address Fears
Provide Information about
Security
Understand War Behavior
Develop Intercultural
Understanding
Explore the Long Range View
Teach the Process of Peace
Promote Social Justice
Promote Respect for Life
Manage Conflict Non-violently
This objective is met by studying the arts and humanities as they
relate to peace. Literature provide a rich backdrop for
understanding the concept of peace and appreciating the art
created in its honor.
Peace educators are prepared to allay the fears their students
have about both major world conflict and war, as well as their
own interpersonal conflicts.
Peace education students need to understand the way national
security systems work so they can begin to conceptualize
alternatives to war that will keep the nation safer in the future.
Peace education students gain exposure to several peaceful
societies as well as the role of individuals like Hitler and
Napoleon in historical conflicts.
War is often a direct result of otherness, so developing a deep
understanding and respect of other cultures is critical to
promoting peace.
Peace educators help to promote a hopeful optimism by showing
students that it is possible to affect the future based on what we
do today.
Teaching this process encourages students to feel comfortable
addressing conflict peacefully in their own lives while helping
them understand how to get involved on a societal level.
Students learn to challenge their own assumptions about
coercive dominant forces that influence their perspective and
ability to see all people as deserving of a violence-free existence.
Peace educators can help students develop a healthy self-image,
build trust with others, promote social growth, and address the
suffering in the world while learning compassion and empathy.
Understanding how to manage conflict non-violently is critical to
peace education and can apply not only to students' individual
lives but also on a societal or global level.