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We all approach peace education out of our own personal experience. If we are to empower our students to understand and cope with threats to peace across national and cultural borders, we must understand the challenges encountered by our colleagues in other nations and cultures and how they are coping with these challenges.
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This text was first published as “What Should Be the Foundations of Peace Education?”, in, Yacov Iram, ed., Education of Minorities and Peace Education in Pluralistic societies. Westport, CT, Praeger, 2003, 43-55. The permission to republish this text was granted by Ms. Suzanne Paris of ABC-CLIO LLC, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
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Alger, C.F. (2014). What Should be the Foundations of Peace Education?. In: Peace Research and Peacebuilding. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00503-4_8
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