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Making our schools even better!
What is the primary purpose of education? Is there a relationship between education and civilization? What is the main quality of a progressive civilization? Does your school reflect the main qualities of a civilized environment? What is the relationship between civilization and peace? What is the relationship between peace and education? Does your school offer […]
The Victims of Violence
Social conflicts have always been with humanity. But, they seem to be more frequent and destructive in our highly populated, diverse, and technologically advanced world. Consequently many people are suffering. These disasters cause emotional, interpersonal, and social problems. Among emotional problems are sadness, anger, fear, guilt, depression, and discontent. Some interpersonal difficulties caused by […]
Conflict and Unity
Image by Brad Montgomery We live in a conflicted world and quite often we experience conflict ourselves. In fact, conflict is so universally present that we take it for granted and consider conflict as an inevitable part of life. This approach to conflict has significant consequences; among them is the fact that by taking conflict […]
12 Week Online Courses with Leading Peace Educators
The Transcend Peace University TPU is an all-online university, currently headed by Prof. Dr. Johan Galtung. Their inter-disciplinary courses are designed to cover issues pertaining to peace and development studies. TPU seeks to promote trans-border, inter-disciplinary peace studies, and make them accessible to as wide a community as possible. For this, they have opted for […]
Creating Bullying-Free Schools
In recent months in Canada we have experienced loss of precious, innocent lives of young people who killed themselves when the evil impacts of continuous bullying by a few cowardly classmates made living too difficult for them to endure. Unfortunately, these individuals are neither the first nor the last innocent victims of this malignant practice. […]