ActionAid Nigeria and Global Peace Development (GPD) Thursday identified the inclusion of peace education in Nigerian school curriculum as a way of tackling security challenges in the country arising from violent extremism.
This explained why they commenced training of Peace Club Facilitators for Secondary Schools in Select States of Nigeria.
The training, which started in Kaduna Thursday and funded by Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF), is designed to contribute to peace education activities, where students will be taught the importance of peace and human rights, psychosocial and emotional healing from pains that dehumanises students to withdraw and or avoid societal engagement and cultural impunity.
Addressing the opening of the training in Kaduna, Resilience Programme Coordinator of ActionAid Nigeria, Anicetus Atakpu said, with education in the school curriculum, incessant crisis and violent extremism in Nigeria will be curbed.
He said: “We feel that one of the things missing in our school curriculum is peace education. We feel that, if peace education is inculcated into our school curriculum, it will go a long way in curbing some of the incessant conflict and crisis that we see.
“So, one of our ways of bringing this into the schools is through the establishment of Peace Club. We have done this in the past in Kogi and Nasarawa states and we are now doing it in Kano and Kaduna states.”
