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Write for Peace?
Ehis Abebe Abu (Lagos)
Peace Foundation International PFI's Working Model of Infusing Peace and Human Rights Education in Africa's School CurriculumThis paper will take a complete overhaul of the present education curriculum in Africa, the subjects, cultural and socio relevance of these subjects, methods of teaching these subjects, impact of these subjects on the students and so on with a view to exposing the loopholes.
It will also carry out a need assessment program to determine whether the present school curriculum in Africa reflects our social and cultural peculiarities. For example crisis, conflicts and violence are so entrenched in Africa, and surprisingly, there is no provision in the curriculum addressing these issues and ways of preventing them.
Unfortunately, African governments have not practically demonstrated that the issue of Peace & Human Rights Education will become a must learn for all students in the nearest future. But this is what we need most if the continent will survive.
Peace Foundation International PFI have taken the challenge of empowering Africans with the skills of applying the tools of peaceful resolution of crisis at all levels.
The paper will robustly demonstrate to other participants PFI's Peace Education & Human Rights Grassroots Model using a peace education curriculum, Job description for Peace Builders that we developed with funds from USAID. This model can be replicated in all African countries.
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