Our youth is our future and therefore it is imperative that they be educated to strive to achieve and maintain peace. The development of non-violent conflict skills has become a training priority. Most communities are trying to develop ways to live peacefully in a democratic South Africa. Peace and peace-making are not just techniques deployed to patch up differences when conflicts erupt, but are larger concepts that can be applied even to situations that are not visibly conflictual. Peace is a philosophy with its own values and precepts that provides a framework to discern, understand, analyse and regulate all human relationship to create an integrated and humane social order.
Peace is a way of thinking and acting, a culture and a way of life.
The Centre for Peace Studies aims to build bridges between the academic world and communities and organisations at grass-roots level. It offers practical distance learning peace education programmes and workshops for range of audiences. One of the features of the Centres annual programme will be the Unisa African Peace Studies Programme, an intensive residential course for potential community leaders from around Africa.