What is Peace Education?
Peace education is a broad field and can be difficult to define. Very simply, peace education empowers learners with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values necessary to end violence and injustice and promote a culture of peace.
Human Rights Education, Multicultural Education, Global Citizenship Education, and Conflict Resolution Education all fall under the scope of Peace Education and provide different approaches to the field. Although peace education is highly contextual and often tailored to specific settings or regions, the underlying goal is the same - peace is peace, no matter where you are.
Key principles of Peace Education include:
- A learning environment where both teacher and students teach and learn from one another through equitable dialogue
- Combining academic study with practical application towards societal transformation
- Analyzing issues in a holistic way that accounts for the past, present, and future, and includes the personal, local and global levels
- Promoting values such as compassion, equality, interdependence, diversity, sustainability and nonviolence
Read more about the background and motivations of TWB's Peace Education Program Coordinator here.