QUOTES
"The
ultimate goal of peace education is the formation of responsible, committed, and
caring citizens who have integrated the values into everyday life and acquired
the skills to advocate for them."
Women,
whose experience of conflict has been long and varied, particularly as peacemakers
in the family, see the best ways to resolve conflict as those that help to meet
at least some of the concerns of all conflicting parties, what has come to be
called 'win-win solutions.' This familial or kinship model of conflict resolution,
in which maintaining constructive human relationships is a primary concern, seeks
fairness and reconciliation rather than victory or retribution.
Thinking
about how the world might be and envisioning a society characterized by justice
are the essence of conceptualizing the conditions that comprise positive peace.
If we are to educate for peace, both teachers and students need to have some notion
of the transformed world we are educating for.
We
must change ourselves and our immediate realities and relationships if we are
to change our social structures and our patterns of thought…. We cannot achieve
change unless we can think it.
