The Transformative Potential of Ethics Education to Prevent Violence and Build Peace

Ethics education has a transformative potential to prevent violence and foster peace by strengthening children’s critical thinking, ethical reflections, and ability to work collaboratively with others. With these life skills, children can navigate social struggles, find positive solutions to conflicts, and ultimately learn to live together in peace. 

An ethics education approach involves a transformative pedagogy that creates safe learning environments where children are empowered to actively contribute to their local and global communities, while teachers become facilitators with the skills, and commitment to support learners in developing their full potential as peacebuilders, contributing to creating a more peaceful and safer world for all children.