Themes for Peace Education

Contemporary Issues and Trends in Education

Peace education begins with the attitudes people carry toward difference and works outward to the structures that hold a society together. These themes cover the dispositions that make peace possible, the forms violence takes, how peace is taught and learned, and the human dignity that gives the whole effort its center.

Attitudes That Build Peace

The six attitudes peace education develops, tolerance as its aim, and how to counter stereotypes.

Building a Culture of Peace

Peace as something people build, and non-exploitation of both people and nature.

Types of Peace and Violence

Negative and positive peace, four forms of violence, and the levels of peace from personal to global.

The Peaceable Teaching and Learning Process

The cognitive, active, and affective phases, and why schools teach peace.

Human Dignity and Human Rights

Dignity at the center of social peace, the skills peace builds, and the rights that express it.