Religions for Peace, through its Peace Education Standing Commission, has led the way toward developing a curriculum to promote tolerance among young people and adults. Using the spiritual and ethical teachings of students’ own faith traditions as a foundation, peace educators help students develop a new understanding of, and respect for, people of other backgrounds.
For example, Religions for Peace and its affiliates have worked in such nations as:
- Israel, where a project called Common Values/Different Sources brought together Jews, Muslims, and Christians to study sacred texts together in search of shared values that they could practice in everyday life, eventually resulting in a book for classroom use;
- Thailand and Japan, where recent Youth Leadership Ethics Camps brought together young representatives of those countries’ religious communities for training programs in leadership vision, moral ethics, and community service, and strengthened reconciliation between Japan and Korea;
- Germany, England, and other countries, where educators are analyzing school textbooks’ treatment of religious traditions that are foreign to the books’ intended audiences.
For more information, please contact:
Peace Education Standing Commission
World Conference of Religions for Peace
Prof. Dr. Johannes Lähnemann, Director
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Regensburger Str. 160
D-90478 Nürnberg
Germany
