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Lets Start Peace With Children
This as an article by AERO member Nasser Yousefi of Peace School in Toronto, in Canada:
With each passing day, looking at the world's situation, I believe more and more that it is better to start peace with children from childhood. All events worldwide show that the people who have assumed official and governmental responsibilities in different countries these days have not been familiar with pacifist ideas and have not been influenced by the culture of peace.
Most government officials in many countries have been trained in behaviourist, elitist, individual-oriented and profit-oriented schools. Whether in capitalist countries, ideological countries, or dictatorial countries, they all studied in educational systems that did not teach or practice concepts such as shared interests, participation, living values, the culture of peace, etc. They have learned and practiced more about how to compete, recognize, or care for their individual and their group's interests, recognize what is profitable for them, how to dominate their surroundings and identify what will profit them faster and more.
Many educational systems teach their students that they have the right and are allowed to do anything for their success.
All those who fuel and encourage violence, domination, totalitarianism, more profit, and individual interests in some ways have undoubtedly been trained in systems that were competitive and based on personal interests. Otherwise, the world could have been much more promising than it is right now.
Therefore, revising children's education and promoting the culture of peace and shared interests can be beneficial and valuable. It can help to expand peaceful and humanitarian programs in the coming decades.
You may think it is the responsibility of global policymakers to decide on this matter. That they should decide and determine the educational programs for children may or may not be towards peace, participation, and shared interests. However, this is not correct and can even be a false expectation. The powers never want to acknowledge the people's interests or alter the world's programs in the direction where everyone has a decent life.
We should not wait for them to decide because...........
Read the whole article HERE
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