Peace Education Flashcards
An approach in game theory to understand the relationship between peace and conflicts. Process of modeling the strategic interaction between two or more players in a situation containing set rules and outcomes
The Peace & War Game Theory
A theory that suggests peace is part of a triad, which also includes justice and wholeness
The Active Peace Theory
The Triad of Active Peace
What is the transformation of conflicts away from violence, oppression, and subjugation by social and political means. Mediation, conferencing, circles peacemaking, and kindred ‘encounter’ forms.
Peacemaking
The Triad of Active Peace
Nonviolent accompaniment needs not be organized or public in its motivations, but is more effective when it is done publicly, and the reasons are publicized.
Peacekeeping
The Triad of Active Peace
Sustainable development - providing for human needs so that the associated conflicts involving sustaining life are ameliorated or eliminated.
Peace building
Suggests that states may secure their survival by preventing any one state from gaining enough military power to dominate all others.
The Balance of Power Theory
Defined in layman’s term as the state of calm and tranquility. State free of oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions.
Peace
He introduced the concepts of negative peace, positive peace, and structural violence
Johan Galtung (1964)
The absence of violence. Example: Cease-fire
Negative Peace
Presence of social justice and equality, and the absence of structural or indirect violence.
Characterized by the presence of harmonious social relations and the “integration of human society” (Galtung 1964)
Positive Peace
Or indirect violence.
Result of social structures or institutions that prevent people from meeting their basic needs and accessing their basic human rights.
Structural Violence
They describe structural violence as “killing people without the use of the gun”
Assefa (1993)
A process of promoting knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values needed to bring about behavior change that will enable children, the youth and the adults to prevent conflict and violence, both overt (direct) and structural (direct) (UNICEF 1999)
Peace education
Attitudes and Values of Peace Builders
1) Self-respect
2) Respect for others
3) Respect for Life/Nonviolence
4) Compassion
5) Ecological Concern
6) Cooperation
7) Justice
8) Social Responsibility
9) Positive vision
Attitudes and Values of Peace Builders
A sense of your own worth and a sense of pride in your own particular social and cultural background
Self-respect
Attitudes and Values of Peace Builders
A sense of worth and inherent dignity of other people, including those with social, religious, cultural and family backgrounds different from your own
Respect for others
Attitudes and Values of Peace Builders
Valuing of human life and refusal to respond to an adversary or conflict situation with violence;
Respect for Life/Nonviolence
Attitudes and Values of Peace Builders
Sensitivity to the difficult situations and suffering of other people and acting with deep empathy and kindness towards those who are marginalized/excluded
Compassion
Attitudes and Values of Peace Builders
Caring for the natural environment
Ecological Concern
Attitudes and Values of Peace Builders
Valuing of cooperative processes toward the pursuit of common goals
Cooperation
Attitudes and Values of Peace Builders
Acting with a sense of fairness towards others, upholding the principle of equality
Justice
Attitudes and Values of Peace Builders
Willingness to wake action to contribute to the shaping of a society characterized by justice, nonviolence and well-being
Social Responsibility
Attitudes and Values of Peace Builders
Imaging the kind of future they prefer with a sense of hope and pursuing its realization
Positive vision
It is about dealing with the reasons why people fight in the first place and supporting societies to manage their differences and conflicts without resorting to violence.
Peacebuilding
“The youth will be part of future local development and assume important roles in the resolution of conflicts within their communities”
Tinnerholm (2018)
“The positioning of youth in society has a bearing on their leadership potential and their possible role in peacebuilding”
Ozerdem (2016)
