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Contents87IV. Educating towards a better future‘Peace is the way’, said Mahatma Gandhi. This statement sounds straightforward,and almost too simple. However, every day we experience that it is actually not thatsimple at all. Dealing with life in a peaceful way is, apparently, something we needto teach ourselves and our children. How can we do this? How do we organize thislearning process and determine its shape and content? What place do forgiveness andreconciliation have? How important is heritage understanding in this issue? Educationattempts to provide an answer to these questions.A primary school student erases the blackboard in his classroom, in Harare, Ehtiopia. ©Eskinder Debebe/UN PhotoOver the last few decades, the emphasis on peace education has systematically increased.Our goal is to raise children so that they become peaceful and concerned cosmopolitancitizens, who can participate in events at a local, national and internationallevel. To this end, we try to provide them with the necessary knowledge, values andskills. If peace is a house where people can live safely and comfortably, what buildingblocks should we use to construct it? In this section, we provide a list of experiencesand ideas that produce concrete points of interest, such as teaching tips – through theexample of underwater cultural heritage – and teaching reflections on peace, reconciliation,human rights and tolerance today.