Unit-1: Introduction

Overview:

The world has witnessed the most magnificent developments in science and technology, and also concurrently, the massive loss of human lives at the hands of the ‘powerful’, strife, wars, human degradation, and the unscrupulous during the twentieth century than that during the entire human history. If education could teach human beings to become the most sophisticated annihilators of the human beings and life on earth, it is also education alone that can and must educate human beings to live with peace and dignity. Learning to live with and in peace is emerging as a premise of peace education. In this module, we will deal with the conceptual issues in peace and conflict studies.
 

Suggested Reading:

  1. Barak, Gregg. 2003. Violence & Nonviolence: Pathways to Understanding. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

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