ABSTRACT
This chapter narrates the patch works for peace drawn from a human rights seminar. Programs based on human rights and peace activism, although they provide powerful anchors to foster global citizenship and civic engagement, should ideally require an element of activism, hands on learning and foster a personal connection to the issues. Such disruptions and interruptions take on the nature of being unofficial curriculums. The development of the critical peace activist can be forged through dialogue and unofficial classroom engagements and further these lessons can resonate beyond the classroom walls as students embrace the politics of interruption as part of their greater journey. One of the key moments taken from students during unofficial lessons is that students have been underexposed to many ideas related to dehumanization. There is an underlying passive acceptance of the status quo and little interrogation or personal introspection in relation to more difficult questions related to human rights, democracy and global citizenship.
