The overall aim of Education for Peace is to help build a peaceful world. To do so we aim to:

• Understand the nature and origins of violence and its effects on both victim and perpetrator.
• Create frameworks for achieving peace and peaceful, creative societies.
• Sharpen awareness about the existence of unpeaceful relationships between people and within and between nations.
• Investigate the causes of conflicts and violence embedded within perceptions, values and attitudes of individuals as well as within social and political structures of society.
• Encourage the search for alternatives and possible nonviolent skills.
• Equip children and adults with personal conflict resolution skills.
• Show people that violence and war are learned and not an intrinsic part of human nature and that it is possible to resolve conflict peacefully.
• Create a more peaceful world where all of us may become agents for change. Education for Peace gives us the skills that will assist in achieving peaceful societies.
• Correct the limited understanding of peace held by many people that it is the absence, however contrived, of direct violence, of wounding and killing.
• Create a better learning environment where conflict and relationships may be explored.

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