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Peace education has been the stepchild of both the peace research and the peace action communities in the post-Word II era. Not seen as intellectually respectable enough for the researchers, not action-oriented enough for the activists, it has been regarded as the domain of do-gooder teachers and tactically unskilled community volunteers. As for impacting foreign policy, it is thought of as the least effective instrument in the peace field. Taking another point of view entirely, I will argue that peace education is the critical interface between research and action, and a major vehicle for the underlying culture change necessary for peace development in war-dominated societies.
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This text was first published as: “Peace Education as Peace Development”, Transnational Associations 6: 321–326, November/December, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Union of International Associations, reprint permission granted on 7 July, 2015.
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In November 1962 I attended a World Forum of Women in Brussels bringing together women from socialist and nonsocialist countries to talk about educating children for peace. I will never forget the deeply moving speech made by a former headmistress of the International School at Geneva about the loss on the battlefields of Europe of the generation she and her colleagues had been preparing as the new peacemakers.
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The best way to track the evolving ideas of the Peace Education Commission during these years is to look at special journal issues devoted to peace education in this period. The following are of particular interest Bulletin of Peace Proposals, Symposium issues on Peace Education, 1979: 4; 1981: 2; 1984: 2; Gandhi Marg issue on Peace Education, 1985: 79; International Peace Research Newsletter special issues on Peace Education, 1973, 1974, 1976; International Review of Education, Debate on Education for Peace, 1983: 29(3).
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The work of Robin Burns of Australia, Executive Secretary of the Peace Education Commission in recent years, is of special importance because of its in-depth exploration of these issues.
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The International Research Newsletter Non-Offensive Defence (NOD) reports on a great variety of alternative security models and strategies. See also the Bibliography by Moller (1987), the editor of the NOD Newsletter. A new study guide prepared by Irwin (1987) brings together much of the current work of peace researchers in these fields for classroom and community education use.
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Boulding, J.R. (2017). Peace Education as Peace Development (1987). In: Boulding, J. (eds) Elise Boulding: Writings on Peace Research, Peacemaking, and the Future. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30987-3_5
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