Peace Education is a growing area of research at some colleges and universities.Peace education programs often explore subjects covered in the news,such as violence in schools and mental health issues during a quarantine.In Japan this week, Rebecca Oxford was to speak at a meeting of JALT, the Japan Association for Language Teaching.Her subject: "The Language of Peace."Oxford is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland in the United States.She says that foreign and second language teacher-educators and their students have an important duty to play in fostering peace.She adds peace is created through communication, and that communication is the main goal of language teacher-educators and teachers.Oxford says there are six parts to peace.They are inner peace; interpersonal peace; inter-group peace; intercultural peace; international peace; and ecological peace or care for the environment.She believes these six terms give teachers a common basis on which to talk about conflict and work for peace.
