Peace Flashcards
What is Peace?
“as a state of quiet or tranquility, freedom from disturbance or agitation, calm repose”.
Webster defines Peace
What is Peace?“Peace is not merely the absence of war but eh presence of justice, of law, of order – in short of government.
From Albert Einstein
A holistic understanding of peace is that Peace is both the absence of blank and the presence of blank
personal/direct violence
social justice.
What is Peace Education?
Peace Education as 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.
Wikipedia defines
What is Peace Education?
“Peace Education is grounded in active citizenship, preparing learners for assiduous participation in a democracy, through problem – posing and problem-solving education and a commitment to transformative action in our societies
For John Dewey
What is Peace Education?
Peace Education as the process of promoting the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values needed to bring about behavior change that will enable children, youth and adults to prevent conflict and violence, both over and structural: to resolve conflict peacefully; and to create the conditions conducive to peace whether at an interpersonal, intergroup, national or international level.
UNICEF (2009) defines
refers to the presence of just and non exploitative relationships, as well as human and ecological well-being such that the root causes of conflict are diminished. It emphasizes the promotions the promotion of human rights.
• Absence of Structural Violence + Absence of Personal Violence = Positive Peace
POSITIVE PEACE
refers to the absence of war or physical/direct violence; efforts to promote negative peace include disarmament and peacekeeping initiatives
• Peace = Absence of war and violence
NEGATIVE PEACE
is concerned with helping students to develop an awareness of the processes and skills that are necessary for achieving understanding tolerance and goodwill in the world today. Peace education brings together multiple traditions of pedagogy, theories of education and international initiatives for the advancement of human development through learning. The practice of peace education is an opportunity to promote the total welfare of everyone especially students, advocate for their justice and equitable treatment of youth and promote individual and social responsibility for mankind
Peace education
Scope of Peace Education
- Disarmament Education
- Education About Peace
- Critical Peace Education
- Human Rights Education
- Multicultural Education
- Gender & Peace Education
- Global Citizenship Education
- Conflict Resolution Education
- Environmental Education
Levels of Peace
Peace Between Human and the Earth and Beyond
GLOBAL PEACE
Respect for other nations, Justice, Tolerance
INTERPERSONAL/SOCIAL PEACE
Respect for other groups within nation, Justice, Tolerance, Cooperation
INTERPESONAL PEACE
Respect for other persons, Justice, Tolerant, Cooperation
PERSONAL PEACE
Self-respect, Inner resources: love, hope
Different Approaches of Peace
Power Politics: Peace through coercive power
Word order : Peace through the power of law
Conflict Resolution : Peace through the power of communication
Nonviolence : Peace through will power
Transformation : Peace through the power of love
The first peace paradigm, power politics is the traditionally dominant framework in the field of international relations. Advocates of this paradigm who refer to it as “political realism”, contend that there are no universal values that can be held by all actors in the international system.
There are different approaches to peace and perceived by the different eminent personalities. The most of the researchers and educators suggested the ways and means for attaining peace spin around five approaches. They are:
Power Politics: Peace through coercive power
The second approach to peace explored by the class is the BLANK paradigm. This paradigm which views the “order” created by practices that sustained cooperation among states and other significant actors, such as non-governmental (activist) organizations and intergovernmental organizations, is both possible necessary. Peace can be actively sough through policies and efforts that build consensus, reduce injustice, create opportunity and provide multilateral frameworks for responding to common challenges,
Word order : Peace through the power of law
The third paradigm offers a highly pragmatic approach to peace through the development and refinement of skills for analyzing conflicts and responding to them with effective strategies of communication and negotiation. According to this paradigm, conflict is natural at all levels of human interaction and organization, from the interpersonal to the international.
To manage and resolve conflicts effectively, we must become aware of our attitudes towards conflict and our attitudes towards conflict and our habitual conflict management styles (competitive, collaborative, avoidant, submissive, etc
Conflict Resolution : Peace through the power of communication
One of the most common misconceptions about the fourth approach to peace and BLANK is that it is a paradigm that enjoins passivity. As Gandhi, Martin Luther King and many others have underscored, nonviolence is action animated by principle and informed by the proposition that means and ends are inseparable. According to the BLANK paradigm, genuine power derives from will power and human solidarity rather than from violence, which undermines community and sows the seeds of its own destruction.
Nonviolence : Peace through will power