ABSTRACT
Peace building is a people-centred, relationship-building and participatory process. In a nutshell, the Horn of Africa regional security complex depicts a nexus of war-affected, conflict-ridden and post-conflict setting in need of rebuilding social relations, preventing further violence and entrenching a culture of peace. In the Horn of Africa context, peace building and development are very closely interlinked. Both have the same goal: to help to rebuild or repair societies that are hurting physically, economically and socially. Terrorist attacks and civil war have destroyed schools and infrastructures; there is little or no education system in place to build peace through peace education. Peace education is a liberating learning and skills acquisition process in which people — not as recipients but as knowing subjects — achieve a deepening awareness both of the sociocultural reality which shapes their lives and their capacity to transform that reality.
