Education for Peace in a Multi‐Religious World

On 21 May 2019, an international conference on Promoting Peace Together was organized at the Ecumenical Centre, Geneva. The conference culminated with the official launching of the document on “Education for Peace in a Multi‐Religious World: A Christian Perspective” – jointly prepared by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID) and the World Council of Churches (WCC) by the general secretary of the WCC, the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, and the then Secretary of the PCID, H. E. Bishop Miguel Ayuso Guixot. Bishop Guixot, secretary of the PCID from 2012 to 2019, was appointed president of the PCID in May 2019, and was elevated to cardinal in October 2019. The papers reproduced below are a compilation of the reflections on the theme “Education for Peace” presented on the occasion of the launch.     

和平与宗教

引言 2001年9月的悲剧性事件震惊了西方世界,尤其是震惊了美国.夹杂在其他事件之中,这一事件使得有必要留意去了解当代世界的这样一股强大的力量,这股力量有时被贴上黩武好斗、极端主义、原教旨主义和恐怖主义的标签.     

Disrupting the Luxury of Despair: Justice and Peace Education in Contexts of Relative Privilege

Abstract. The Iliff School of Theology established a justice and peace concentration within its curriculum to respond to the challenges of racism, class and economic exploitation, sexism, and militarism by fostering social analysis and attending to the contributions of religious thought and resources to the struggles of social change. Within an institution and with a student body who both tend to be relatively privileged in terms of class and racial or ethnic background, one of the persistent issues in teaching justice and peace studies has been addressing the emergence of guilt, anger, and despair as course content challenges students (and faculty) to relinquish self‐understandings, historical understandings of their religious tradition and national context, and inadequate theological and faith formation shaped by dominant narratives that ignore social realities of oppression. This pedagogical challenge has encouraged multiple professors to develop unique pedagogical approaches to educating students about justice issues in this context. This paper will draw on the insights of these approaches, in conversation with literature‐based analysis, to describe the temptations students experience when learning about justice and peace in contexts of privilege. This paper also describes the pedagogical practices that emerged in this particular context, and the failures and limitations of these practices for individual and institutional transformation.     

“和平餐桌”心理学:马斯洛的和平心理关切

马斯洛是对人类命运带有强烈人道主义关怀的人本主义心理学家,终其一生,一直以促进社会和平、幸福、构建"和平餐桌"心理学为己任。美国社会现实对新价值体系的呼唤、二次战争的影响、对人性的深刻反思、核武器的威力造成"价值中立"科学迷梦的破碎、美国和平运动的发展表现出的和平诉求等均构成了和平餐桌心理学的社会背景。从安全到幸福的需要层次论、从人性恶到人性向善的人性论、从外在教育到内在教育的和平教育论、从存在价值到自我实现的和平人格论等观点成为马斯洛和平餐桌心理学的主要观点,从二岐到整合的心理学方法论对后来的和平心理学方法论也具有重大的启示意义。     

The Family Peace Project

Summary

Intimate partner violence-assault by a spouse, ex-spouse, intimate friend or ex-friend-is the most common cause of injury for women and a serious public health problem. As a result, the American Medical Association has recognized physicians' ethical obligation to diagnose and treat partner violence, and called for new models of training. In this article, we review literature on the health care system's response to domestic violence. We then describe the Family Peace Project, a community oriented model for training health care professionals to identify, treat and prevent partner violence in primary health care settings. This training program provides knowledge, clinical skills and a sense of professional empowerment. Unique features of this program include: involvement of community mentors (survivors of family violence) as program faculty; training in specific clinical skills and protocols for screening, assessment and intervention; a hands-on assessment of community resources; coinmunity service; and, creation of an award winning web site to promote dissemination of the training program.     

Basis for World Peace

The importance of mastery in children's humor has been emphasized by many researchers and theorists. The present study tested the hypothesis that a high level of mastery over S's sex-role identity enhances the funniness of humor based on sex inappropriate behavior. Seventeen three- to five-year-old boys were tested on the It Scale and were shown drawings of children engaged in sex appropriate or inappropriate behavior whose outcome was either positive or negative. While inappropriate and negative outcomes were consistently seen as funnier than appropriate and positive ones, when inappropriate positive outcomes were pitted against appropriate negative ones, boys choosing the former as funnier than the latter had significantly higher sexrole identity scores. Support was claimed for the general role of mastery in children's humor.