ABSTRACT
Education is about learning – organized learning done in settings that can include classrooms, community centers, the Internet or venues in the field. Peace education is a form of learning that looks at both identifying education as a potential site of conflict and violence, and a way of imparting values and techniques that seek to recognize conflict, diminish or eradicate violence, and share tools for contributing to peace. Looking at peace or conflict or violence from a variety of different disciplines has formed multidisciplinary roots for studying violent phenomena – this has helped to form the sub-discipline of peace education where education is linked to violence, conflict, and peace. The materialization of the field of peace education has not occurred without controversy. The Eurocentric content of peace education has met with the same critiques as Western conflict resolution practices, maintaining that a Western cultural standpoint makes the orientation of the field of peace education a form of violence in itself.
