Teaching Peace and War by Annick T.R. Wibben Amanda E. Donahoe

Author:Annick T.R. Wibben, Amanda E. Donahoe [Annick T.R. Wibben, Amanda E. Donahoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781000053753
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-06-09T00:00:00+00:00

Unlike the mainstream education of wars, the field of peace education is under-developed in Pakistan. The case of NGOs teaching peace in Pakistan is a mixed bag of successes and failures, and demonstrates their struggle to maintain a balance between idealism and pragmatism. While some aim for the stars in terms of teaching for an ideal peaceful society, others miss the mark by teaching irrelevant contents. Many NGOs studied by the author lacked the capacity to produce contextually relevant contents. This limitation was reflected in the poor implementation of several programs.

The organizations teaching peace navigate in a highly sensitive territory in which a slight mistake can lead to disastrous consequences (e.g., through direct attacks of violent extremist groups). This phenomenon is aggravated by the government’s protection of extremist groups and the crackdown on NGOs. Thus, local NGOs work very carefully and avoid the risk of working where they should ideally work and with contents that they should ideally promote. Despite all these challenges, teaching peace is important to prevent/counter violent extremist ideologies in Pakistan. One of the constraints of teaching peace in Pakistan is the three-tier system of education in which each system—madrassas, public schools, and private schools—has limited or no interaction with the other. This ultimately demands customized programs to address the needs of each system.

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