Peace Education: Global and Indian Context

Peace in the mind does not suffice. It is in the action. Actions include co-ordination and complementation between the socio-economic and educational diversity between the communities of the country. The differentiation in the educational fibre of the country is the indicator of peace-levels in the country. Peace is challenged by the race, caste, creed, class and dignity of man. Convergence of educational streams of the social mind and the skill-technology may help bridge the negative social and gender divide in the country. Globalization since the post-liberalization era presents a different challenge to the Indian culture and education system. It is not internationalization, and is seeking markets and in the process enculturating consumerism and this worldliness. This is contradictory to our ancient culture of ‘samaadhan’ and other-worldliness. So globalization presents a huge challenge to our education system. We are bound to change our education system for balanced growth, justice to socio-economic diversity and ultimate prevalence of all-round peace. So to pursue peace for our society we have to reconstruct our educational curriculum from the primary level to the higher and professional level. We have to come up with a learning which finds co-ordination between the minds and the limbs. Which also enriches outcomes by complementation between the brain and the hands.
An enriched holistic learning supplanted by enculturation of respect for socio-cultural diversity, upholding human dignity, gender parity, respect for living beings and ultimate agenda of sustainable development will lead to a peace education which will hold itself in times of globalization and turbulence.
Peace-education will essentially be driven by tolerance, growth-parity, sustainable development and all this on the basic platform of inter-disciplinarily.