Securing a Human Right to Peace: A Peace Education Imperative

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Author(s): Dale T. Snauwaert (The University of Toledo, USA)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 17
Source title: Promoting Global Peace and Civic Engagement through Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kshama Pandey (Dayalbagh Educational Institute, India)and Pratibha Upadhyay (University of Allahabad, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0078-0.ch002

Keywords: Education / Ethics and Social Responsibility / Information Science Reference / Instructional Design

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In a groundbreaking session at the United Nations on June 6, 2013 members of civil society and the UN Secretariat opened a very significant inquiry into fundamental questions of the desirability and possibilities of bringing an end to war. Some have posed this query in terms of whether there is a fundamental human right to peace. The United Nations, members of the global civil society, and scholars have engaged in a significant effort to articulate a human right to peace (See, for example, Alston 1980, Roche 2003, Weiss 2010), and the UN Human Rights Council has established an open-ended intergovernmental working group to draft a United Nations declaration on the right to peace (http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/AdvisoryCommittee/Pages/RightToPeace.aspx).This brief essay is intended to launch that same discussion among peace educators.

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