1. Peace Education

2. What is Peace Education For?
Peace Education is a process of transformation
It is the daunting work of changing our ways of thinking, of developing a holistic way of understanding and acting in the world, so that we are better able to address the critical challenges we presently face.
The purpose of Peace Education is to help us transform the conditions that lead to violence against humanity and the Earth

3. What is the Peace Education Must Foster

4. What is the Evil Peace Education Must Address

5. What is the Perspective of Peace Education?

6. What are the key issues for Peace Education?
War system
How it is embedded in the basic economic, social, cultural institutions of different countries of the world – and in our case of AUSTRALIA
Its implications for:
Inequalities of wealth and income (who pays for the weapons of war and who benefits)
Social inclusion
Governance
Environment
Patriarchy

7. Other Issues in Peace Education
Neo-liberal economic order
Rights based understanding of human dignity & global justice
Human right provides the rational basis for a justified demand
Rights of the Earth and all its species
Rights = essence and arbiter of peace
Human rights: “moral heart and soul of the United Nations
But rights are meaningless unless they are balanced and sustained by responsibilities

8. What is the content of Peace Education?

9. Who is Peace Education for?
Integral part of parenting
Key to all levels of formal training and education:
- Pre-school
- Primary & secondary schooling
- Higher education
Integral to continuing / lifelong education
For each of us as responsible citizens
For Pax Christi collectively
For the wider Peace movement
For educators
For the wider community