What will it take to take a culture of peace into families, schools and communities?
That is where peace education becomes important, we need an organized environment in which people can learn to discuss peace. Where people learn the ABCs of a culture of peace. I believe that peace education is a bit like a map that will show people where peace is. Today people look for peace, they desire it, but they cannot find it. Is there a system to teaching peace? Who guides the process? Normally educators ought to lead the process, but first things first, we need to teach peace to our educators. This is the largest obstacle in peace education nowadays. People want to learn the language of peace, they even say a few of the words, but there must be environments where these skills are taught in a systematic manner. It is not something that will happen spontaneously. That is why I say that there will be no peace unless we educate for peace. What is peace? It seems to me that it is merely the absence of war. True, the notion of peace is still a very slippery one. It is a negative not
