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CONTRIBUTIONS TO PEACE EDUCATION BY INDIAN AND WESTERN SCHOLARS There are numerous contributions to Peace Education by many eminent Indian and Western prominent Peace researchers and educators are being discussed here. Indian scholar’s contribution to Peace Education India has been home to Rishis and learned Scholars across ages. The subsequent periods have witnessed peace leaders like Kabir, Tulsi Das, Sri Ramakrishna Paramhans and Swami Vivekananda, Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Jiddu Krishnamurthy, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi and several other leaders, reformers and educationists propounded their views and ideas on peace and its importance in the field of education from to time. They were pioneers of peace and constantly preached …show more content…

Elaborating on the form of peace education, Galtung insists on ruling out direct violence as well as structural violence, meaning any inherent violence that exists in the structure (of the society). The content of peace education, according to him, consists in (1) analysis (2) goal-formation (3) critique (4) proposal-making and (5) action (Empiricism). He said that peace education should not overshadow peace action. A much higher level of peace consciousness, he reiterated, would make up the world in which people are less easily manipulated and it is in pursuit of that kind of a world that peace education would be a contribution. (Galtung, Form and Content of Peace Education, …show more content…

2000-2010 was declared by the UNESCO as the International Decade for Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World. The last five decades have witnessed several significant advocacies for education for peace. The UNESCO 's call for ‘Recommendation concerning Education for International Understanding,Cooperation and Peace Education relating to Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom ' in 1974 is said to be the starting point for recognizing the need for Peace Education. It aims to establish peace across international borders and to augment respect for each other. As the UNESCO remarked, ‘education should include critical analysis of the historical and contemporary factors of an economic and political nature underlying the contradictions and tensions between countries, together to study of ways of overcoming these contradictions which are the real impediments to understanding, true international co-operation and the development of world peace

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