Concept
Peace education
Overview
Peace education is the process of acquiring values, knowledge, attitudes, skills, and behaviors to live in harmony with oneself, others, and the natural environment.
There are numerous United Nations declarations and resolutions on the importance of peace. Ban Ki-moon, U.N. Secretary-General, dedicated the International Day of Peace 2013 to peace education in an effort to focus minds and financing on the preeminence of peace education as the means to bring about a culture of peace. Koichiro Matsuura, the immediate past Director-General of UNESCO, has written that peace education is of "fundamental importance to the mission of UNESCO and the United Nations". Peace education as a right is increasingly emphasized by peace researchers such as Betty Reardon and Douglas Roche. There has also been a recent meshing of peace education and human rights education.
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Two conclusions important for education follow. (1) Experience is primarily an active-passive affair; it is not primarily cognitive. But (2) the measure of the value of an experience lies in the perception of relationships or continuities to which it leads up.
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
States what Peace education is.
"I have long accustomed myself to look with caution upon those who are ardent in the cause of the so-called 'education of the people' in the common meaning of the phrase; since for the most part they desire for themselves, consciously or unconsciously, absolutely unlimited freedom, which must inevitably degenerate into something resembling the saturnalia of barbaric times, and which the sacred hierarchy of nature…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, On the Future of our Educational Institutions
States what Peace education is.
If a few words are added upon the topic of education, it is only for the sake of suggesting that the educative process is all one with the moral process, since the latter is a continuous passage of experience from worse to better. Education has been traditionally thought of as preparation: as learning, acquiring certain things because they will later be useful. The end is remote, and education is getting ready, is a…
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
Close in meaning to Peace education; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Robert L. Holmes
- Gender equality
- Human rights
- Nonviolence
- Categorical imperative
- UNESCO
- Pacifism
- Critical thinking
- United Nations
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Society
- Curriculum
- Awareness
- Natural environment
- Social structure
- Critical pedagogy
- James Page (Australian educationist)
Place in the tradition
Part of Virtue ethics.