Session Description

The session will share a future project ideas and ask for cooperation. Peace education is an essential component of quality basic education. We can define peace education as the process of promoting the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values needed to bring about behavior changes that will enable children, youth and adults to prevent conflict and violence, both overt and structural; to resolve conflict peacefully; and to create the conditions conducive to peace. The purpose of this project is to develop and practice these skills between groups, national or worldwide, to stimulate further discussion and networking among IEARN group members, to move towards a clearer articulation of good practice in peace education, and to pave the way for further exploration of how best to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of this area.

What will educators learn and be able to do at the end of the session?

Once the children start to share their feelings and experiences, they can also start to explore more peaceful scenarios. Camps like these can ensure children to be part of the solution. Children, wish to see their activity mean something to others. In that spirit, many seek out places where they find the kinds of experiences where they can nurture that. Indeed, they may seek out such places because they want to be a part of building a better way to be and a better place to live.

By offering programming that involves engaging and enjoyable community activities with people from around the world, walking in the shoes of others and structured opportunities to be challenged and reflect on the experience,
programs may very well facilitate peace-related ways of thinking and ways of being in ways not possible elsewhere. This is important given the importance of peace, young people’s longing to matter and their desire to become active agents in the world they would like to be a part of.

Peace Education Camp should frame experiences, experiences facilitate learning, learning can serve as a means to an end, and one important end, most definitely, is peace.

Additional Session Information

My school will be eager to host the peace education camp which enables guest students to experience the local culture, tradition, language and art therapy, non-violent communication lessons and discussions. It also gives children an opportunity to participate in a range of fun indoor and outdoor activities, including sports, cooking and dancing.

Session Resources

Peace Education Camp
This slide is supposed to be used during my roundtable discussion.