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Kenya: Conflict Resolution Syllabus for Schools
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The East African Standard (Nairobi)
30 April 2008
Posted to the web 30 April 2008
Samuel Otieno
Nairobi
The Government is preparing a conflict resolution policy for school's curriculum in response to effects of post-election violence.
Contemporary issues will be incorporated in the curriculum, particularly in subjects that will enable pupils learn values of tolerance, problem solving, dialogue and co-existence.
The peace education manuals, come in the wake of massive battering of the education sector during the post-election violence.
"To avoid the creation of a violent generation, we need to embrace peace and transmit values that lead to mutual acceptance among our people," Education PS, Prof Karega Mutahi, told a workshop of education officials reparing the manuals.
He added: "We can do this through integration of peace in our education programmes".
Some 158,000 pupils were displaced alongside more than 100,000 teachers who are now in displaced people's camps.
Karega said peace education would include promoting knowledge, skills, attitudes and values required to bring respect for human life regardless of any diversities.
"This will enable children, youth and adults to prevent conflicts and violence, thus creating conditions conducive for peace," said the PS.
In a schools, the skills will create conditions for dealing with conflict, preventing and reducing instances of conflict as well as maintaining peace.
Karega directed teachers to ensure that their time in school was used to promote peace among students besides equipping them with skills to handle differences and disagreements.
Dr Olivia Yambi, the Unicef Kenya representative, said the initiative that has cost Sh24 million would strengthen peace building throughout the learning process.
She said the initiative, the first of its kind in the country, was similar to those conducted in Ghana, Rwanda and the clash-torn areas of Northern Kenya.
"About 600 educationists will validate the syllabus whose draft has been prepared," she said.
Meanwhile, more than 200 students of Ringa Secondary School in Rachuonyo District have been sent home after they rioted.
The 210 Form Three and Four students had their holiday Tuition cut short after the riot, on Sunday.
"They claimed the food was stale and started pelting the deputy head teacher with stones," said Rachuonyo deputy DEO, Mr Jacob Onyiego.
The riotous students, Onyiego said, broke windowpanes to the dormitories, classrooms and teacher's houses, and burnt prefects' property during the melee.
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He said six students were being investigated for masterminding the strike.
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