ABSTRACT
This chapter expresses the global optimism that, through their actions in learning and teaching, educators can experience as well as promote healing from harms, reduction of violent conflicts, and advance peace in and beyond schools. It brings attention to how research on and descriptions of responsive and relevant education offer insights to policymakers, school administrators, and instructors about how they can support opportunities for learning and living without violence. The discussion presents the theoretical foundations of initiatives for countering violence through purposeful instruction and curriculum design. Local, indigenous, and adopted ideologies speak to learners’ current, along with future, needs to live and learn without violence. This book demonstrates that peace education worldwide has similar goals for healing from, understanding, and preventing violence through adaptations of curriculum and instructional methods. A table included in this chapter identifies the educational strategies described across all chapters of this book for countering violence. The discussion concludes with questions about curriculum and instruction that future research can address.
