A sustainable journey to peace: Peace education in the context of global citizenship education 7 DEFINING PEACE EDUCATION De ning Violence and Peace system, peace as negative/positive peace, As is the case with many concepts related to eminist peace with both macro and micro peace, de ning peace education is not at all levels, peace with the environment, and ho- an easy task. [...] These include: absence peace and peace education in everyday life, o war, balance o orces in the international people, even pro essionals rom the eld o 8 A sustainable journey to peace: Peace education in the context of global citizenship education wide and includes various ills that societies might su er rom, Bar-Tal adds an important PEACE caveat by saying that the “nature o peace ed- uc. [...] peace education it is said that teachers and students should be equal partners in the edu- Talking about the content o peace educa- cational process and, or the large part o the tion Galtung bases the discussion in the ve content, knowledge needs to be produced phases of peace education projects: Analysis, by all the participants in the educational pro- Goal- ormulation, Critique, Proposal-mak. [...] In contemporary Europe, the United Nations (UN), UNESCO, the Council o Human Rights Education is one o the most Europe (CoE), the European Union (EU), and elaborate educational concepts connected the Organization or Security and cooperation to peace education (Council o Europe, n.d.). [...] The vary- commissions” and he often volunteers his time ing contexts across Europe and across the A sustainable journey to peace: Peace education in the context of global citizenship education 21 world determine the content and the approach two-way channels in which the situations at o the organizations designing and imple- both ends are seen to be interrelated” (2008, menting peace education.
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