ABSTRACT
Emotions play a central role when the goal is improved cooperation and a deeper understanding of what is needed to overcome the differences that produce conflict, create policies for making an enduring peace, or building peace through better communications. Emotional maturity is the capital needed to move toward sustainable peace and development. Students in the communication/interpretation program raised other issues about emotional maturity. Social, emotional, academic, and ethical education can help children reach the goals their parents and teachers have for them. Robert Enrich has been a leading researcher in the scientific study. He and his colleagues have worked with incest survivors, drug addicts, abused women, those who have called on hospice to help with the dying and with teachers in Northern Ireland who are emerging out of decades of violence and civil war. Enrich lessons that can be connected to the lessons learned by so many in Burundi who are also available to teach others.
