CONCEPTS OF EDUCATION, CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND PEACE

Barango-Tariah, Hope and Okonne, Ifeoma Beatrice

Department of Educational Management

Faculty of Education, University of Port Harcourt

Email: hopebarangot@gmail.com; ifychy2002@gmail.com 

Abstract: This paper is concerned with a discourse on how education is being managed or manipulated to achieve peace and conflict resolution. The concept of conflict and the various types of conflict including the causes of conflict, education and conflict resolution. The concept of peace and the various types of peace were also highlighted with a view of extracting the impacts of education in peace and peace building.  The paper examined most of the processes of resolving and achieving peace and conflict resolution through education with a view of achieving a lasting peace in the society.