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16<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Upliftment</strong> <strong>Monthly</strong> Cover News<br />
Year : 1, Issue : 4<br />
voice of the people is the voice of<br />
god. No conflict, no violence and no<br />
war can be won by the barrel of gun.<br />
Only one can fight against it and they<br />
are the PEOPLE, the PUBLIC and the<br />
PEN. Even Napoleon the great was<br />
said to be afraid of ‘Armless People<br />
and the Pen’.<br />
Abraham Lincoln said “Darkness<br />
can never be dispelled by the<br />
darkness, only by light. The role of<br />
power is darkness. The rule of law is<br />
light.” And the light is the education.<br />
There is no administrative,<br />
institutional and mechanical model<br />
in the world that can assure to give<br />
us any guarantee of providing peace.<br />
Peace prevails only when man is<br />
contented and contentment avail<br />
only when mind is tamed. The Mind<br />
is tamed only though education.<br />
World Peace City through Peace<br />
Education-<br />
Lumbini cannot be developed<br />
as an island of Peace. Without the<br />
goodwill of the community, no<br />
institution can prosper. A basic need<br />
of the community has to be provided<br />
and a basic dream of a man has to<br />
be fulfilled. Immediate goal of the<br />
World Peace City is not only to draw a<br />
realistic master plan, but the program<br />
has to be immediately followed<br />
by poverty alleviation through<br />
infrastructure development, forestry,<br />
agriculture, tourism, and cottage<br />
industries. While undertaking poverty<br />
alleviation program, another most<br />
important task is carrying out the<br />
peace education. It should be done<br />
simultaneously. Peace education<br />
helps to address rights and duties of<br />
diverse culture and religion and at the<br />
same time pacify the unreasonable<br />
grievances of the local population<br />
and communities. Peace education<br />
prepares them to voice their realities,<br />
experiences, understandings, biases,<br />
commitments, hopes, despair, and<br />
dreams.<br />
Multi-faceted Education-<br />
Effective peace education<br />
is a wonder medicine. It raises<br />
basic questions of over materialist<br />
lifestyle and consumerist ideology<br />
propaganda by the dominant<br />
modernization paradigm. In<br />
promoting respect among culture,<br />
mutual learning, and adaptation of<br />
indigenous values, the education<br />
strategies can be constructive to<br />
building culture of peace. While we<br />
proceed ahead in the process of<br />
developing Lumbini as a World Peace<br />
City, it is extremely necessary that<br />
we change the mindset of the people<br />
and community through effective<br />
education. The local community<br />
group, living and coping with the<br />
crisis situation are the major player<br />
in transforming violence into peace.<br />
Education movement, dedicated to<br />
building more peaceful futures for<br />
humanity, inevitably have their own<br />
dynamics in terms of theory and<br />
practice.<br />
The educational dimension includes<br />
* disarmament education,<br />
* education for nonviolence,<br />
* human right education,<br />
* development education,<br />
* social justice education,<br />
* education for international<br />
understanding,<br />
* intercultural education,<br />
* nonracial education,<br />
* environmental education,<br />
* education for sustainable<br />
development etc.<br />
Non-formal education models-<br />
Education for peace is as<br />
relevant and essential in educational<br />
institutions as in nonformal or<br />
community context. There is also<br />
growing consensus that rather<br />
than continuing peace education<br />
to separate subject, the infusion or<br />
integration of peace perspective<br />
across the whole curriculum including<br />
extracurricular activities. Apart from<br />
formal peace education in school and<br />
college curriculum, the participatory<br />
teaching and learning strategic nonformal<br />
education also needs to be<br />
well and wide spread among all<br />
sectors and level of society.<br />
Participatory learning strategy<br />
include<br />
• popular street theatre,<br />
• Song and dance<br />
compositions,<br />
• poetry and story writing,<br />
imaging and other futures<br />
exercises,<br />
• poster drawing,<br />
• mural painting,<br />
• participatory action<br />
research projects,<br />
• dialogical lectures, media<br />
and textual content analysis,<br />
• cooperative,<br />
• games,<br />
• political and social advocacy<br />
projects<br />
• peace rally,<br />
• field exposures,<br />
• peace museums,<br />
• peace fairs and exhibits,<br />
• peace conferences and<br />
forums,<br />
Such participatory strategies<br />
in peace education need to be<br />
relevant to specific social and cultural<br />
conditions. Peace education is the<br />
first and foremost strategic step to<br />
be taken seriously in the process of<br />
establishing a World Peace City. In<br />
other word, peace education is the<br />
foundation of Lumbini World Peace<br />
City.<br />
World Peace City through political<br />
commitment –<br />
Politics is based on people. And<br />
every politician raise rhetoric slogan<br />
for the sake of people. Hence, a Peace<br />
Proposal wished by the local people<br />
has to be accepted by the ruling<br />
political party, opposition party, rebel<br />
political party. There should not be<br />
any bone of contention. A declaration<br />
proclaimed in this fashion should be<br />
accepted and treated as the country’s<br />
testament of Peace.<br />
The comprehensive scope of<br />
democratic security may appear<br />
utopian, especially in the context of<br />
political restlessness but in reality it<br />
is an objective that can be reached. If<br />
we remain cautious of our rights and<br />
duties, the judiciary, military, police,<br />
rebels, custodian and communities<br />
can follow the code of conduct<br />
prepared by the World Peace City.<br />
However, no zone of peace can exist<br />
unless the police and rebels respect<br />
it. Nepal deserves achieving the zone<br />
of peace after many years of being<br />
tormented by the political conflicts.<br />
Nepal will be on the correct path if<br />
the government as well as rebels get<br />
obliged and committed themselves<br />
to support the establishment of<br />
World Peace City in Lumbini as<br />
wished and aspired by the people.<br />
And this is the perfect beginning.<br />
Zoning of World Peace City –