평화와 평화교육

Peace and Peace Education

The purposes of this study are to analyze the significances, ideals, goals and realms of both peace and peace education, to show a new viewpoint and method of peace education for the realization of peaceful unification between South and North Korea, and to bring up eternal pacifists in the era of globalization. Korea was a unified, homogeneous nation-state for over 1,300 years since Silla had been successful in unifying the Three Kingdoms. The current half -century division is abnormal. Therefore, there is a historic necessity for peaceful unification. Now is the time fir us to devote our energy to the creation of our new history. When we create the hopeful future by reflecting our past, we call it creation of history. Now we should do our best to establish creative logic and practices on the basis of our spiritual sovereignty by means of desirable education. As matter of fact, peaceful unification is undoubtedly one of the foremost subjects for public debate in Korea. It is the nature of wars, that one should sow seeds of another ; it is the nature of revenge to produce reciprocal revenge. There is scarcely any peace so unjust, but it is preferable, upon the whole, to the justest war. Above all things, we should make every effort to prevent war in the Korea Peninsula. There is no happiness without peace. There is no justice without peace. Happiness cannot be obtained through war. Peace cannot be obtained through conquest. Therefore, peace is more precious than victory. A paradise cannot be created through conquest. If man cannot conquer war, war will conquer man. War begets war and hatred. But peace begets peace and love. Love makes all men one family. Hatred turns brothers into enemies. It is necessary to rededicate ourselves to lasting global peace and for progress of humankind. Peace is a word that for many of us is filled with pleasant connotations. It is a word that more often than not brings to mind images that are overwhelmingly positive. The world is growing to be as one unity. We are now experiencing the age of the global village in our everyday lives. In these day, we cannot survive if we maintain a narrow view of conservative nationalism and short-sighted egoism. The motto “Think globally and act locally” has become the most important wisdom of living in the era of globalization. Peace education for unification between South and North initiates the understanding that globalization after unification can increase the unified country's property and advancement. The ideology that guides Korean community can be defined as the peace. When it comes to peace in the process of unification and peace as the goal of globalization, the objectiveness of unification education will be considered the final stage. Peace is more precious than victory. A paradise cannot be created through conquest. Therefore, those who work for peace are blessed. Love makes all men one family. Hate turns brothers into enemies. Since wars arise in the minds of men, they must also be combated in the minds of men. Education is the only possible means by which we do this, and it must be in the form of education for peace and inter-Korean understanding. The basic ideal of peace education is to develop human abilities to overcome the apathy of non-peaceful phenomena as a war and the structural violences and to keep peace, loving mind forever. Peace education is not only the tasks of schooling but also the important tasks of family and social education. Last but not least, the first and most important step towards to peace is sincerely to desire it. Peace of mind would come to all people through a universal respect for the basic human rights of everyone. We are all brothers and sisters. In conclusion, it is recommended that we can create conditions under which not only local skirmishes are prevented from spreading but also big powers dare not conceive the idea of campaigning a global war, by promoting the spirit of love fo