The Role Of Curricula In Building Peace And Resolving Conflicts In Colleges Of Education

Abstract

This study aims to explore the importance of incorporating peace building and conflict resolution concepts into curricula and the impact of this on students in educational environments. The study will address how to enhance these concepts to develop students' abilities to interact positively with their peers and resolve conflicts peacefully, contributing to a more peaceful and stable educational environment. The study relied on the descriptive method (content analysis) as the most suitable approach to study the phenomenon in order to describe and analyze it. This is the most appropriate type of methodology to achieve the purpose of the study using interviews, questionnaires, and content analysis of the human rights curriculum, selecting a sample of colleges where these curricula have been implemented. The current research is limited to the content of human rights lectures.

The researchers prepared a content analysis card for human rights lectures and extracted its psychometric characteristics, including types of validity such as face validity and construct validity, as well as reliability. They used mathematical methods in their research procedures and data analysis, including frequencies and percentage calculations. In the statistical methods, they employed the Chi-square formula to extract the agreement of the judges and the Kappa formula to determine the agreement of the analysts, and the