Best Way to Promote Peace

The quest for peace and search for solutions to resolve conflicts like Christian-Muslim relationship is still a long way and it has to be strategic. We have no time for a competitive approach or “win-lose” strategy. Strategies itself must be peaceful like formal dialogues, negotiations, and an active participation of civil society of the Philippines.

But how can we do this if most of the time we don’t care for peace?

I believe it is through Peace Education. Understanding peace is very important. Awareness is the key and it is the beginning. Being aware of the importance of peace is a process of acquiring the right values, skills and behaviors in resolving interpersonal and intra-personal disputes through techniques of negotiations. There are various ways to teach peace and the other elements attached to it like culture, importance of communication, prejudice, discrimination, human dignity, stereotypes and resolving of conflicts to a wider population including all walks of life.

How to educate people about Peace is the next challenge. We can promote peace by:

1. Walking the talk. Be a role model to others.

2. Consciously influencing others through Social Media – Tweet about peace, Read about peace talks and inform to other people, post articles in facebook other social networks.

3. Starting peace within yourself, family, and neighbors.

4. Lastly, if you have time, be involved with peace projects in educating people about peace. I am sharing my own personal way in spreading peace when I joined PeaceTech Workshop and we created a puppet show for kids, entitled: Doray the PeaceMaker. Here is the documentary of our puppet show.

There a lot of ways to promote peace, think of your own way as long as it will educate the people

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