What Peace Education Can Contribute in Building World Peace

At this present time, there is no doubt that education is a vital necessity in each human’s life. Every human being has the right to get a proper education regardless of gender, culture, ethnicity, or economic background. Education has several functions in the society including socialization, social integration, social placement, and social and cultural innovation. It is not exaggerating to mention that education is the core pillar in building world peace. The reason is because the functions of education are correlating with the substances needed to build peace. In creating world peace, the society plays the main role to establish a harmonious and peaceful relationship which then will determine the output of world peace. When education is done considering the values of peace, only then the society of peace can be established.

World peace can only be established when we have the citizen of peace. The Peace Education curriculum of HWPL was developed to create the citizen of peace who value and love peace. The purpose of HWPL Peace Education is to train and educate people to become “citizens of peace” and “peace messengers” so that they can spread a culture of peace into the world. It is divided into two main parts. Lessons 1 to 4 begin with explaining the discovery of peace within nature that has enriched life for billions of years. Lessons 5 to 12 explain about the values of peace that should be placed within each student’s heart and mind. Gratitude, consideration, sacrifice, forgiveness, etiquette, law-abiding spirit, courage, and more are important values needed to spread peace in this chaotic world. When such values are internalized and characterized within the students, then they become “citizens of peace” and “peace messengers,” which allow them to become “heroes of peace” that achieve world peace and leave it as a legacy for the future generations.

There is a quote from an American actor, Chadwick Boseman, “Education is the gateway to broadening perceptions, fighting stereotypes, and creating parity in this world.”. In order to achieve world peace, one must start from educating oneself and the society to have the character of peace. With the HWPL Peace Education, the society can be integrated into peace citizens that are able to nurture and sustain peace.