We are able to split the atom and fly to the moon, yet we have difficulty living in peace with one another. Peace should hence be at the forefront of education and human existence.<\/p>\n
A new horizon is on its way; one of hope, dignity and peace. Humanity\u2019s suffering, and war and conflict-time experiences, could pave way to sustainability, interconnectivity and people\u2019s coexistence harmoniously. Is this a utopian dream? This is hardly the case, as if we are to survive as one human family; we must come together and live in peace.<\/p>\n
EGP (Education for Global Peace), is a new movement network committed to bringing about a world based on a culture of peace. It was once famously dubbed by Immanuel Kant \u201cewigen frieden,\u201d German for<\/em> \u201cPerpetual Peace.\u201d Today, we rethink the philosophy behind perpetual peace. It is a long-lasting peace that penetrates through all layers of human tensions and stigmatized history. We believe that the foundation of peace is education and the foundation of the world is peace. Observing the implementation of peace education programs in various countries, what has remained as a challenge is that peace education has been treated as a one-sided fa\u00e7ade. In other words, peace education was considered as a tool to reach peace i.e. \u201ceducation for peace\u201d or \u201cpeace for education.\u201d While both are high aspirations, yet the idea of dissecting peace education into two dimensions, and further setting it apart from the whole educational system, weakens its impact. This happens due to the fact of having peace education only as a curricular doze that is confined in time to a particular setting. Henceforth, our goal is to imbibe and mainstream peace education in educational systems worldwide.<\/p>\n We at EGP are brought together by our common yearning and passion to work for a peaceful world. We are realizing that the secret to bringing about a peaceful world is to build and develop a global movement network that can withstand the world\u2019s tendencies to obstruct positive change. If we bring together all the people and organizations that agree that we have to educate for peace in order to bring peace, collectively, we have all the know-how, expertise, creativity, and resources to reach our mission of mainstreaming peace education.<\/p>\n We have reached a tipping point in history where we must introduce education as peace not only in high-risk countries, but in fact throughout the whole world. Otherwise, we end up with what we see at the moment: cancer-like pockets of extreme terrorism forcing children into plights, and other heart breaking appalling barbarities in the name of whoever they call their superior.<\/p>\n This is why an innovative approach to education is necessary. Education as a gown for peace would enable us to comprehend the dynamic and uncertain world. Deconstructing the normative understandings of peace is another quest that comes at the offing in order to realistically and critically address peace not as a fixed concept throughout history, but rather as an interactive notion. This is what EGP strives to attain.<\/p>\n ___________________________<\/p>\n