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Peace education must for harmony: NCERT Chief

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National framework of education puts emphasis on the subject

JAIPUR: The Director of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), Krishna Kumar, on Saturday said that peace education should find a significant place in all streams of the school curriculum to evolve a vision for social harmony and justice.

Dr. Kumar, addressing a two-day consultation with school principals and educationists here, pointed out that the national framework of education had involved peace education as an important issue in view of the fact that it was not yet fully incorporated into the study courses.

"We need to inculcate a spirit of inquiry among the children, going beyond theoretical education, that enables them to understand the issues of peace and justice in proper perspective," Dr. Kumar said, but added that it would not be prudent to think of a one-track syllabus covering these themes.

The consultation titled "Towards building education for justice and peace" was held jointly by the leading schools and non-Government organisations here to sensitise educationists about the role of education in resolving conflicts and evolving a peaceful society.

The NCERT Director felt that peace was lately being used as a "symbol of silence" to muzzle the voice of resistance. "Imposition of peace through violent means cannot establish an everlasting justice which is possible only through the power of words taught to young minds," he said.

Noted social activist and Magsaysay Award winner, Aruna Roy, spoke on the agitation to secure right to information in the context of differences, diversities and discrimination. She affirmed that the right to information would help establish peace and justice in the society at large.

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