Learning peace: Adolescent Colombians’ interpretations of and responses to peace education curriculum.

Peace Education and Teaching

Violence , Peace , and Peace Research

A Study on the Importance of Utilizing Art-Based Curriculum in Teaching Peace to Learners

The present study aimed to draw attentions toward the importance of art-based curriculum in order to promote indexes of teaching peace to learners. Arts education is an integral part of curriculums and greatly influence nurturing philanthropist and peaceful teachings to learners especially in their early years. However, arts education and its effect on developing ethical skills, compassion, sym...

Education for democracy, dialogue and peace

In this era of globalization, higher education is under pressure to respond to market demand of the knowledge economy if it has to remain relevant. This contrasts with sustained demand for intellectual leadership in social and political challenges characterized new forms of violence that call for relevant response from the academia. My contribution will briefly introduce the conventional wisdom...

Towards an integrative theory of peace education

This paper proposes the integrative theory of peace (ITP) and briefly outlines the education for peace curriculum (EFP) developed on the basis of this theory. ITP is based on the concept that peace is, at once, a psychological, social, political, ethical and spiritual state with its expressions in intrapersonal, interpersonal, intergroup, international, and global areas of human life. The theor...