Learning for peace
Twentieth century social sciences and thought have revealed how peace is lost and how it can be recaptured and made strong.
That knowledge helps peace-making in some of the world’s worst afflicted places.
There is good education about peace in many universities but less in schools and little that has entered our communities as ‘general knowledge’.
Learning more about peace opens up ways for ourselves to make it stronger, for example by shaping our appraisals and guiding our reactions to relationships within and between groups and nations.
This website introduces some of that valuable learning through simple, realistic and practical peace-building activities.
The activities rest on widely shared wisdoms about peace. Simple early activities will lead on to ones that challenge deeper thought about Peace - its origin, its health, its influences in our lives and the possibilities for its growth and improvement.
With the many helpful things we now know and can do, we can make a calmer world.
Find out more in the Posts below and elsewhere on this website.
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About Peace 1 - Tips from the Top
Quotations from modern-era advocates of Peace Meet Albert, Johan, John, Desmond, Yoko and Malala. . In most matters the lives and works of acknowledged leaders are valuable starting points for learning and action. That's certainly true of leaders such as these for Peace. Their thoughts and actions are respected because they have already improved or […]
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Learning for Peace
February 26, 2026
Michael
Twentieth century social sciences and thought have revealed how peace is lost and how it can be recaptured and made strong. That knowledge is helping to make peace in some of the world's worst afflicted places. The UN and other peace-makers are however insufficient to help all such places; and each year conflicts descend to […]
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ZAP1 What is Peace
February 23, 2026
Michael
Retitle this Post as a more objectively valid starting point as What is Peace. ZAP1 What is Peace? - previously A good place to start Learning Peace 'grows on us' through our lives. Most of us 'like' it, but as with many other intangible things it has no simple definition. Words and symbols for Peace […]
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Things to find out about learning for peace
What's to know about peace?
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conflict areas of , knowledge and from Internet sites routinely announce or support educational events and course of study about Peace.
Significant researches and studies related to Peace have emerged from the older universities of Europe since the 1920s. In 1973 the UK's University of Bradford opened a department for studies of Peace and Conflict. Since 2000 a Global Peace Index has emerged from work in Australia's University of .....
There is growing international co-operation such as a search for peace education suited to the nations of Southern Asia, and a Global Campaign for Peace Education.
For this website the most immediately accessible information is from initiatives and the UK. From that it is becoming possible to conceive, alongside learning in schools, a peace education learning pathway leading from an age of say 9 or 10 in the junior school years to that of college students.
Some ..(how many) .. UK universities currently offer courses related to Peace and Conflict. Few schools .... (more here from draft material )
For more details of the range of modern knowledge about peace see [link here] the summary of a recent sixth form syllabus for Peace Studies.
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