Education for Peace: A Call to Prioritize Socio-Educational Changes
Communist regime propaganda has sidelined the importance of educating about peace in public discourse. The concept of peace encompasses the absence of war, violence, and the promotion of tolerance. Defining education for peace entails shaping attitudes towards living harmoniously with oneself, other communities, societies, cultures, and nature. Recommendations include integrating peace education into the curriculum while respecting human rights, contextualizing it to local needs, promoting gender equality, addressing social differences, and acknowledging historical realities to shape a peaceful future.
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Why have we forgotten educating about peace? Communist regime propaganda A rare appearance in public discourse Outside the agenda of socio-educational changes
The Concept of Peace Absence of war and violence Tolerance Satisfy certain needs
Defining education for peace it forms attitudes to live in accord with ourselves, other communities, societies and cultures, and nature in general UN UNICEF, UNESCO EU Council of Europe
1. Education for peace to take place under the unconditional recognition of the rule of law, fundamental human and civil rights and freedoms and respecting the commitments that our country has accepted as a member of the international community and the European Union.
2. Using best international experience, education for peace should be as contextualized so that it meets the needs, specifics and traditions of our country.
3. Education for peace includes education for peace for gender equality, gender equality and reduction of gender violence.
4. Education for peace should acknowledge students about existing social differences, instead of trying to conceal them. It should also explain the resulting obligations and responsibilities.
5. Education for peace must take into account the historical realities, knowing that they can t be amended. However, it must create an understanding that if the past is not under our control, the future is in our hands and it only depends on us whether those ethnic groups that were enemies in the past, can work as partners in future, in the name of their own well-being and prosperity.
6. Educating for peace in the public school we are obliged, with help from the state, to work first and foremost on equality of students, and second, to build a national responsible ethnic elite who will constitute the main propulsion of integration of their ethnicity.
7-8. It is time that the elites of the main ethnic groups in our country as well as Muslems, to assume their responsibility for bringing peace. Education for peace does not contradict, but complement patriotic education, the two must go hand in hand, educating pride of their own ethnicity and belonging to the democratic civilian Bulgarian nation.
9. And finally, education for peace should be guided not by political correctness rather than the real needs of our society with its cultural heritage and diversity.
