PEACE BUILDING CURRICULUM

Peacebuilding curricula include conflict prevention, conflict management, conflict resolution and transformation, and post-conflict reconciliation. 

Education should include a critical analysis of the historical and contemporary factors of economic and political nature underlying the contradictions and tensions between countries, together with the study of ways of overcoming these contradictions, which are the real impediments to understanding genuine international cooperation and the development of world peace.

The culture of peace is a set of values, attitudes, modes of behavior, and ways of life that reject violence and prevent conflicts by tackling their root causes to solve problems through dialogue and negotiation among individual groups and nations.

Peace education, which promotes a culture of peace, is essentially transformative. It cultivates the knowledge base, skills, attitudes, and values that seek to transform people’s mindsets, attitudes, and behavior that, in the first place, have created or exacerbated violent conflicts. It seeks this transformation by building awareness and understanding, developing concern, and challenging personal and social action to enable people to live, relate, and create conditions and systems that actualize nonviolence, justice, environmental care, and other peace values. Hence, incorporating peace education into the curriculum will be most appropriate.