Promoting peace education through the adult in the community

This paper is an exposition of the subject “Promoting Peace Education through the Adult in the Community”. In it the characteristics of Peace have been analyzed both from the definitional point of view and from the literature. Two keys words which revolve around peace, namely, peaceful and peaceable, have been analyzed and one may understand that it is not just enough for one to be peaceful but more importantly peaceable which connotes activity: one has to be a peacemaker. Looking at the various manifestations of lack of peace it has been indicated that these may be perceived from the cultural, ethnic, racial, political or religious problems which often results in conflicts, violence and wars. Other social problems have also resulted from lack of peace, including environmental problems and crime. The Adult in the Community is therefore, seen as the focus in any meaningful conflict resolution and therefore, in peace education in the community with the Adult in the family as a focal point. This has implications for the adult educators whose beliefs in the progressive perfectibility of the human nature and human condition should spur him to educate adults in peaceful and peaceable directions.