By Professor Menelito Mansueto Based on my limited engagements with Peace Studies related themes, I agree and share a similar observation with my former classmate and a good friend: Dr. Bernard Caslib, of the University of the Philippines–Manila, who opines that Peace Education is a relatively new import in the Philippine educational curricula. On my part, my exposure to Peace Studies concepts was brought to my new teaching environment in Mindanao State University System (MSU), which offers and handles the mandatory course “Fundamentals of Peace Education,” among tertiary students, an effort which brought MSU System the status and distinction as a National Peace University. Part of my personal and scholarly growth is my encounter and collaborations with the research works of Dr. Juichiro Tanabe of Waseda University in Tokyo. Tanabe’s novel Buddhist approach to Peacebuilding Education captivates my interest in the field. Probably the most notable sch...
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