Peace Education: Glimpses from the EUPRA Conference in Firenze. Peace Education Reports No. 5.

Overview & Synopsis

This report presents the material from a workshop on peace education that was part of a conference sponsored by the European Peace Research Association (EUPRA). Two papers, "Research as a Tool for Peace Education" (Alberto L'Abate) and "Promoting Commitment to Peace and Environmental Responsibility" (Riitta Wahlstrom), are documented in part 1 of the report. The other presentations, reported in summary form in part 2, include: (1) "Goals of Peace Education According to Peace Educators: Some Notes from a Questionnaire Study of PEC Members" (Ake Bjerstedt); (2) "A National School for Teachers of Conscientious Objectors: A Project and A Curriculum" (Antonino Drago); (3) "Public Opinion on the Conflict and War in the Gulf, 1990-1991" (Philip P. Everts); (4) "Human Rights, Peace Studies, and International Education" (Jorgen Pauli Jensen); (5) "The Necessity of a Multiethnic Education for Peace and Coexistence in a Changing Europe" (Soren Keldorff); (6) "What Is This Thing Called Peace?" (Mary Maxwell); (7) "Cultural Symbiosis in Al-Andalus" (Sanaa Osseiran); (8) "Nonviolence in Education" (Pat Patfoort); and (9) "Peace Education in Sweden: Some Glimpses from the Public Debate" (Bengt Thelin). (SG)