PEACE EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN; ANALYSIS OF EDUCATIONAL POLICIES TO EXAMINE THE REALITY

Abstract

During the past decade in Pakistan societal apprehension has been increased about terrible forms of terrorism. This corresponds to the evolution of peace education in academia. Considering the importance of this societal need this paper seeks to provide a comprehensive chronological analysis of the state educational policies from 1947 to 2009 and the place of peace education within these policies. By adopting the framework for analysis, guided by Levander & Mikkola, in 2009, the analysis of policies was carried out in two phases. At first phase policies were reviewed to find out the aspects of peace education. At the second phase of analysis founded aspects of peace education were further explored to establish the quality of descriptionFindings, shows that the different educational policies focused on few aspects of peace education i.e.tolerance, justice, cultural diversity, environmental education, and human values. The findings build on analysis suggests that the new policy of education should focus on peace education extensively so that the issues of violence and terrorism could be minimized from the society.