NURTURING A CULTURE OF PEACE IN SCHOOL CHILDREN
Keywords:
Culture of Peace, Peace Education, Peace Club, TransformationAbstract
Peace education in classrooms aims at furnishing students with necessary knowledge and attitudes through respectful, tolerant, participatory, and cooperative techniques and methods. Peace education provides the opportunity to improve the social well-being and responsibilities of both teachers and students. The present study was carried out to measure the impact of a peace programme among school children. The value of imparting peace education for a just society with sustainable peace is related through the data collected from students and teachers who participated in this research. The findings show that children and youth have reported change within, in becoming more tolerant, accepting, knowledgeable of the diversity that they co-inhabit in, respecting and willing to know more about others, work for their communities and state. And more significant is the fact that a large number of children are beginning to promote peace by talking about the same with their peers, family and community, by mediating in conflict that they come across in family and friends, by doing social work activities.
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