Lesson 6: Who Will You Make Peace With?
Background for teachers:
Through detailed analysis conducted with the support of McKinsey & Company, the Peace One Day 2012 report found that, across the world, 280 million people in 198 countries were aware of Peace Day 2012 – 4% of the world’s population.
Following this success, Peace One Day launched a new theme for 21 September 2013: Who Will You Make Peace With? Peace is not only about stopping wars in other coun- tries. It is about recognising the conflict in our own lives and committing to take the first action towards peace- ful dialogue and reconciliation. Peace Day 21 September is the ideal starting point. Individual stories of resolution spread, inspiring others, communities, even nations.
In this lesson, children are encouraged to identify a re- lationship (or relationships) in their life where there has been conflict and begin to explore ways of making peace, using Peace Day 21 September as the focus.
We recognise that the issues being discussed here are often sensitive. We are also mindful that in extreme cases where conflict has resulted in violence (either domestic vi- olence, bullying, gang-related violence etc.), approaching
Lesson Aims: • •
the antagonist directly to seek reconciliation is not simple and not necessarily advisable without professional sup- port. Peace One Day encourages you to use your best judgement in these matters and seek support where nec- essary.
Where individual students express reticence in identifying and approaching specific people in their lives with whom they want to make peace, those students may wish to create a more general activity in the home, bringing to- gether family members or friends, perhaps for a meal or to play a game together. Marking Peace Day more gen- erally in this way may begin to create an atmosphere whereby specific reconciliation can be approached at a later stage.
Whenever Peace Day falls on a weekend (such as 2013), we hope this will lead to increased participation around the world; young people have the potential to lead this campaign and, as a teacher, you have a key part to play. At the bottom of this lesson there is a link to our feed- back form. By filling in and submitting this form you will be helping report on the success of Peace Day this year.
To encourage each pupil to identify an individual, or individuals, in their life who they would like to make peace with on Peace Day 21 September, and to make a simple action plan to this end.
(And/or) to encourage each pupil to organise an activity bringing together family or friends on Peace Day.
Learning Outcomes - students should be able to: •
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Recognise the importance of reconciliation and identify their role in this.
Become an active Peace Maker by planning and implementing a course of action aimed at improving relation- ships on Peace Day.
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