Handbook on Peace Education.

Overview & Synopsis

The intention of this handbook is to report on the present situation in the international discussion on peace education and to make further development of this field possible in the peace movement. The first of the three sections contains papers which are contributions on preconditions for and the foundations of peace education, along with discussion of various concepts of the function of peace education. Part two contains a summary of examples which attempt to explain peace education in more concrete terms, both in and outside of school. In these approaches, peace research, peace education and action for peace are seen as directly related to each other, a precondition to reach their maximum effectiveness. A number of reports on efforts to put peace education into practice in various countries are found in the third part of the handbook. Included are reports on the Bad Nauheim Conference on peace education, on different implementation strategies, and on work in peace education in Belgium, Hungary, Great Britain and the United States. A list of contributors is appended. (Author/KSM)