Human Rights and Peace Education by Dr. AnjnaAgarwal Asst. Professor, DauDayalMahila P.G. College, Firozabad (U.P.

) India

Peace education programs centered on human rights awareness-raising typically focus at the level of policies that humanity ought to adopt in order to move closer to a peaceful global community. The aim is to engender a commitment among participants to a vision of structural peace in which all individual members of the human race can exercise their personal freedoms and be legally protected from violence, oppression and indignity.Knowledge of human rights is the best defence against their violation. Learning about one's rights builds respect for the rights of others and points the way to more tolerant and peaceful societies. Vast numbers of people are still unaware of their rights. While laws and institutions could in many cases defend them, people must first know where they may turn for help. Human rights are the result of humanity's increasing and persistent demand for dignity, respect, justice, protection and freedom--all needed for a decent human existence.Awareness about HR can play an important role in world peace. Peace education may be defined as the process of acquiring the values, the knowledge and developing the attitudes, skills, and behaviours to live in harmony with oneself, with others, and with the natural environment. Since the early decades of the 20th century, peace education programs around the world have represented a spectrum of focal themes, including anti-nuclearism, international understanding, environmental responsibility, communication skills, non-violence, conflict resolution techniques, democracy, human rights awareness, tolerance of diversity, coexistence and gender equality, among others. Some have also addressed spiritual dimensions of inner harmony, or synthesized a number of the foregoing issues into programs on world citizenship. While academic discourse on the subject has increasingly recognized the need for a broader, more holistic approach to peace education, a review of field-based projects reveals that three variations of peace education are most common: conflict resolution training, democracy education, and human rights

education. There has also been a recent meshing of peace education and human rights education. Peace education programs centered on human rights awareness-raising typically focus at the level of policies that humanity ought to adopt in order to move closer to a peaceful global community. The aim is to engender a commitment among participants to a vision of structural peace in which all individual members of the human race can exercise their personal freedoms and be legally protected from violence, oppression and indignity.Knowledge of human rights is the best defence against their violation. Learning about one's rights builds respect for the rights of others and points the way to more tolerant and peaceful societies. Vast numbers of people are still unaware of their rights. While laws and institutions could in many cases defend them, people must first know where they may turn for help. In existing study a survey was conducted to check the level of awareness aboutthe Human Rights among the Pupil-Teacher. A self-prepared interview schedule had been used to collect the data.For this purpose 60 female pupil teachers were selected from the Firozabad city. The study found that the Pupil-Teachers have below average level of awareness about human rights. Most of the Pupil-Teachers could not answer properly what are the human rights.Pupil-Teachers had good knowledge about Fundamental Rights but they didnt know how many articles are there in the Human Rights document. Most of them had knowledge about when Human Rights day is observed but very few answered about RTI and PIL. When there were asked about LokpalBill only eight respondents were having some knowledge about it while six respondents were known to Amnesty International. It was also found that mass media which includes newspaper, TV and Internet is the most helpful source of knowledge regarding Human Rights among the Pupil-Teachers. The study emphasizes the need to develop more aggressive and effective Human Rights education program to ensure the proper dissemination and education of Human Rights among the Pupil-Teachers. The dream of Peace Education can only be realized through the proper implementation of human rights education programme. Conclusion Over the last five decades, the process of internationalization and globalization of the concept of human rights has generated the movement "All Human Rights for All." In a complex country such as India, violations of human rights at all levels necessitate human rights education at all school levels in general and teacher education in particular. Hence, human rights education should find its rightful place in the school curriculum, teacher training courses--pre- and in-service, textbooks, supplementary reading materials, educational policies, and school administration. Human rights education must exert its influence from early childhood education onward and through a broad range of disciplines to build a human
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rights culture. Hence, greater commitment from all sectors and preparation of a sound, realistic plan of action can help us achieve human rights education for all and transform the human rights movement into a mass movement to achieve a better social order and peaceful coexistence. Indeed, this is one of the greatest challenges in the 21st century.

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Statement What are the Human Rights ? When was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted? What is UNO ? How many articles does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights contain? Can you name some of the rights championed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? What is Amnesty International ? Whenis Human Rights Day observed? What is RTI ? What is PIL ? What are the Fundamental Rights ? What is LoakpalBill ? When Human Rights commission was setup in India ? What is Peace Education ? What is Unicef ? Why was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted?

Know 24 (51.4) 13 (18.6) 27 (38.6) 4 (5.7) 54 (77.1) (Below 10) 06 (8.6) 48 (70) 04 (5.7) 05 (7.1) 41 (58.6) 08 (11.4) 02() 14() 03(4.3) 17(24.3)

Dont Know 36 (34.3) 47 (67.1) 33 (47.1) 56 (80) 06 (8.6) 54 (77.1) 12 (15.7) 56 (80) 55 (78.6) 19 (27.1) 52 (74.3)

57(81.4) 43(61.4)