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Peace Education
The peace education program is centered on democracy education, conflict resolution which focuses on the social-behavioral symptoms of conflict, training individuals to resolve inter-personal disputes through techniques of negotiation and (peer) mediation and raising awareness of human rights with the aim of engendering a commitment among participants to a vision of structural peace in which all individual members of the human ethic group and race can exercise their personal freedoms and be legally protected from violence, oppression and indignity . Peacebuilding, on the other hand, is a more proactive approach that uses peace education as a means of creating a more stable and peaceful culture, thereby preventing violent incidents from occurring. Peace education is critical to creating a culture that reduces the need for peacemaking and peacekeeping by developing a comprehensive program that teaches people how to interact with others and avoid unnecessary aggression. It seeks to improve communication through skills such as listening, turn-taking, identifying needs, and separating facts from emotions. The program also conducts research on security, conflict, strategic and national issues affecting peace in the midlands province and in Zimbabwe at large. People will be educated on the principles of good governance as well as gender and conflict issues.