ABSTRACT
One of the most important recent developments in the peace research field has been the recognition that negotiation and conflict resolution are ubiquitous processes, going on all the time in daily life. Much of peace education leaves cognitive structures and everyday experience untouched. The new thinking about local-global linkages makes possible an experiential approach to peace learning. The violence that exists is considerably magnified by a journalistic bias toward reporting stories of violence more fully and frequently than stories of peaceful conflict-resolving activity. Peace learning requires full development of each human capacity and most particularly the capacity to learn directly from nature itself, the greatest teacher of all. One of the myths of the culture of militarism and violence is that war and preparations for war are realistic and that peace and peacemaking are hopelessly unrealistic. Important task of peace learning is to learn to look with a critical eye at the distorted cultural images.
