ABSTRACT
The aim of this essay is to analyze the contribution of Israeli public religious education to promoting peace. The article has four parts. First, it presents how the Jewish religion generally understands the concept of peace. In the second part, it proceeds to present three distinct approaches found in rabbinic literature relating to peace: 1) A harmonious approach with the objective of resolving conflict; 2) a conflictual approach that takes issue with harmony and glorifies struggle; 3) a dialectical approach, which simultaneously oscillates between conflict and harmony and is not interested in either a permanent positive resolution nor in a non-resolution. In the third part, this contribution will analyze how religious education employs these approaches and what influence they have on the educational system. Finally, in the fourth part, it will analyze how we can transform the three approaches to peace into didactic tools for peace education in interreligious group encounter.
