Heroes for a Better World

Betty Reardon
(1929-)

American Peace Educator
Founding Director, Peace Education Center

2001 UNESCO Prize for Peace Education
1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005

birthdate: June 12
birthplace:
Rye, New York

QUOTES

"The ultimate goal of peace education is the formation of responsible, committed, and caring citizens who have integrated the values into everyday life and acquired the skills to advocate for them."

Women, whose experience of conflict has been long and varied, particularly as peacemakers in the family, see the best ways to resolve conflict as those that help to meet at least some of the concerns of all conflicting parties, what has come to be called 'win-win solutions.' This familial or kinship model of conflict resolution, in which maintaining constructive human relationships is a primary concern, seeks fairness and reconciliation rather than victory or retribution.

Thinking about how the world might be and envisioning a society characterized by justice are the essence of conceptualizing the conditions that comprise positive peace. If we are to educate for peace, both teachers and students need to have some notion of the transformed world we are educating for.

We must change ourselves and our immediate realities and relationships if we are to change our social structures and our patterns of thought…. We cannot achieve change unless we can think it.

 


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