THE COMPREHENSIVE SCOPE OF PEACE solving the reasons why conflicts and violence

happen in the first place.

EDUCATION
• Causes of Conflict & Violence: These are things that
EDUCATION FOR PEACE make people fight or hurt each other, like
disagreements, unfairness, or not having enough
Knowledge/Content Areas resources.
• Some Peaceful Alternatives: These are ways to
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make peace without fighting, like talking things out,
- presence of conditions of well-being, cooperation
finding compromises, or helping people get along
and just relationship in human and ecological
better.
spheres.
SOME PEACEFUL ALTERNATIVE
Conflict and Violence
• Disarmament: The reduction or elimination of
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military weapons and capabilities, aimed at
- study the problems of violence in various levels and promoting peace and reducing the potential for
examine the roots and consequences. armed conflict.
• Non-violence – Philosophy & Practice: A belief in
SCHEMA OF KNOWLEDGE, SKILSS & ATTITUDE/VALUES resolving conflicts without resorting to physical force
or aggression, advocating for peaceful means to
ATTITUDES/VALUES
address issues and promote social change.
• Self-respect: Valuing oneself, having confidence in • Conflict Resolution, Transformation & Prevention:
one's abilities, and treating oneself with dignity. Processes and strategies to peacefully manage
• Respect for others: Acknowledging the worth and and resolve disputes, transform relationships, and
rights of other individuals, treating them with prevent conflicts from escalating.
courtesy, and considering their perspectives. • Human Rights: Fundamental rights and freedoms
• Gender Equality: Ensuring that everyone, regardless inherent to all individuals, regardless of nationality,
of gender, has equal rights, opportunities, and ethnicity, religion, or other status, ensuring dignity,
treatment in all aspects of life. equality, and justice.
• Respect for Life/Non-violence: Valuing all forms of • Human Solidarity: Unity and cooperation among
life and advocating for peaceful conflict resolution individuals and communities based on shared
without resorting to harm or violence. values, interests, and goals, fostering support and
• Compassion: Showing empathy and concern for empathy for one another.
the well-being of others, and taking action to • Democratization: The process of establishing or
alleviate their suffering. strengthening democratic principles, institutions,
• Global Concern: Considering issues that affect and practices within a society to ensure broader
people worldwide, beyond national or local participation, transparency, and accountability.
boundaries, and promoting cooperation and • Development Based on Justice: Promoting
solutions on a global scale. economic, social, and political development that is
• Ecological Concern: Being mindful of the fair, equitable, and inclusive, ensuring opportunities
environment and advocating for sustainable and benefits are accessible to all.
practices that protect natural resources and • Sustainable Development: Development that
biodiversity. meets the needs of the present without
• Cooperation: Working together with others compromising the ability of future generations to
harmoniously to achieve common goals and solve meet their own needs, balancing economic
shared problems. growth, social inclusion, and environmental
• Openness & Tolerance: Embracing diversity of protection.
ideas, cultures, and beliefs, and being open-
SKILLS
minded towards different perspectives.
• Justice: Upholding fairness, equality, and the rule of • Critical Thinking & Analysis: This means carefully
law in interactions and systems, ensuring that all looking at information, questioning it, and figuring
individuals receive their due rights. out what's true or important. It's like being a
• Social Responsibility: Recognizing one's duty to detective who checks all the clues before making
contribute positively to society, whether through a decision.
personal actions, businesses, or institutions. • Decision Making: This is about choosing what to do
• Positive Vision: Maintaining optimism and based on thinking things through. It's like picking the
envisioning a future that is equitable, sustainable, best path after considering all the options.
and beneficial for all. • Imagination: This is thinking up new ideas or seeing
things in a different way. It's like creating new stories
KNOWLEDGE
or solving problems with fresh, creative thoughts.
Holistic Concept of Peace • Communication: This is how we share ideas,
feelings, or information with others. It involves
• This means seeing peace as more than just the speaking, listening, and understanding to connect
absence of fighting. It includes understanding and with people effectively.
• Conflict Resolution: This is about solving • Teachings students to become peacemakers.
disagreements or problems peacefully. It involves • Includes training in anger management, skills in
listening to each other's perspectives, finding attentive listening, effective communication,
common ground, and working together to reach a constructive dialogue etc.
solution everyone can agree on. • When relationship and issue are both important,
• Empathy: This is understanding and sharing collaborative problem solving is an approach that
someone else's feelings or experiences. It's about is recommended.
putting yourself in their shoes to better connect and • In the Philippines, using peer mediation makes way
support them. for culture of peace.
• Group Building: This is bringing people together to
work well as a team. It involves fostering trust, ANGER MANAGEMENT TIPS
cooperation, and mutual respect among group ✓ Explore what’s really behind your anger
members to achieve common goals. ✓ Be aware of your anger warning signs
DISARMAMENT EDUCATION ✓ Identify your triggers
✓ Learn ways to cool down quickly
• Atomic bombing and cold wars was the beginning ✓ Find healthier ways to express your anger
of Disarmament Education. ✓ Stay calm by taking care of yourself
• Recent years, proliferation and misuse of small arms ✓ Use humor to relieve tension
and light weapons were also included. ✓ Recognize if you need anger management classes
• International Action Network on Small Arms raised
awareness about the global threat to human rights, MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
and human security. • Developed in countries that are multicultural or
• Aims to educate and campaign against arms have culturally diverse population.
proliferation. • Defined as “helps students to understand and
HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION appreciate cultural differences and similarities and
recognize accomplishments of diverse groups.
• Following the proclamation of Universal Declaration • To appreciate and understand others culture as
of Human Rights in 1948 well with one’s own.
• HRE contributes to peace • Promotes person’s sense of uniqueness of his own
• Positive conditions reduces armed conflict and war culture as a positive characteristic.
• Learning rights of all human beings cannot be • Attitudes toward one’s own race and ethnic group
taught inside an authoritarian classroom. forms early.
• Teachers are reminded to learn and uphold • Seeks to eliminate stereotypes to enable children to
standards of human dignity and decency. learn the similarities of all individuals and to accept
and respect others despite the differences.
HRE study includes: • Developed in countries that are multicultural or
✓ Universal Declaration of Human Rights have culturally diverse population.
✓ Convention on elimination of All Forms of • Defined as “helps students to understand and
Discrimination against Women appreciate cultural differences and similarities and
✓ Convention on the Rights of the Child. recognize accomplishments of diverse groups.
• To appreciate and understand others culture as
GLOBAL EDUCATION well with one’s own.
• Promotes person’s sense of uniqueness of his own
• Anything that help individual to learn and care culture as a positive characteristic.
more about the world beyond his/her community. • Attitudes toward one’s own race and ethnic group
• Education for responsible participation in an forms early.
interdependent world community. • Seeks to eliminate stereotypes to enable children to
3 key themes and perspective: learn the similarities of all individuals and to accept
and respect others despite the differences.
1. Human value-centered
2. World-oriented EDUCATION FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING
3. Future-oriented • Declaration and Integrated framework of Action
CONFLICT RESOLUTION EDUCATION and Education for Peace, Human Rights and
Democracy
• Applied in many schools and has educated
learners about managing conflicts constructively. Importance of education:

Common goals: ✓ Promoting peace, human rights and

democracy and
1. Create a safe and constructive learning ✓ The recognition of their intimate relationship.
environment
2. Enhance students’ social and emotional • Encompassing not only peace at the global level
development but also its building blocks of nonviolent.
3. Create Constructive Conflict Community
 INTERFAITH EDUCATION • This seeks to empower people with knowledge, skills
and values to live in peace with mother earth.
• A movement with progressive agenda • Peace-oriented Environmental Education teaches
• It began in 1893 at the World Parliament of people and schools to be personally and socially
Religious gathering in Chicago green.
• Bring together religious and spiritual leaders of
diverse traditions to engage in dialogue, and to SPIRITUAL & FAITH TRADITIONS AS RESOURCES
educate about their respective traditions.
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• Inter-religious literacy within the interfaith
movement developed. • Religious believers have gone to war and
• Interfaith Education was now viewed as morally committed acts of violence in the name of their
and socially essential means for promoting faith.
countering discrimination and hate crimes and to • The original teaching of spiritual and faith traditions
promote peace. indicates essentially wellspring and resources for
• Aims to acquire and empathetic understanding of peace.
other religions/faith traditions. • Cooperation and understanding have now
• Encourage cooperation among the religions/faith become imperative
traditions. • Despite the diversity, we are one humanity

DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION 5 Major Spiritual & Faith Traditions:

• Criticized the unjust and unsustainable economic 1. Christianity

order. 2. Islam
• Integration of issues of poverty and inequalities in 3. Buddhism
the social studies curriculum and other subjects 4. Hinduism
areas. 5. Indigenous traditions
• The goal is to build peaceful communities by
promoting an active democratic citizenry.
• Cultivate learners critical consciousness that
challenges injustice and undemocratic structures.
• DE promotes a vision of positive peace and one
that motivates people to struggle against injustice.

GENDER-FAIR/NON-SEXIST EDUCATION

• Efforts to oppose sexism in schools have been taken

so the students can reach their full potential
regardless of their gender.
• GFE seeks to foster among the learners respect for
the abilities and rights of both sexes, develop
awareness of the gender biases and stereotyping.

Key concepts:

✓ Shared parenting
✓ Home management
✓ Decision-making
✓ Equal opportunities
✓ Enhanced participation and participation in
public affairs

Key concepts:

• Making women’s roles and contributions visible,

valued and recognized
• Elimination of all forms of violence against women
• Observance of non-sexist child rearing practices
and schooling

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

• This is a field that emerged with postmodernism

Various Environmental Destructions increasingly felt:

1. Pollution
2. Depletion of forests and other resources
3. Global warming