RELEVANCE OF UNIVERSAL HUMAN VALUES & PEACE BASED EDUCATION IN DEMOCRATIC NATIONS

Abstract

No democracy can thrive and advance without universal human values and peace based education. Democracy has hardly any meaning without human values and peace. A democracy is basically to promote and support good causes and value education is a powerful means to achieve this objective. Every society needs to be bound together by common values, so that its members know what to expect of each other, and have some shared principles by which to manage their differences without resorting to violence. Universal human values and peace are all the more relevant in the present context given the kind of problems democratic countries are grappling with. Value education plays a very significant role in development and promotion of peace in the world. It teaches a person to realize the difference between good and great.