Peace education in secondary schools of Mizoram

Peace education aims to equip future citizens with the necessary knowledge, attitudes, and skills to acknowledge and respect all kinds of diversity and understanding with human dignity. This article is based on empirical research to examine the practices of peace‐related activities in secondary schools of Mizoram. Mixed method was employed in this study. The secondary school students and the teachers of Mizoram were the target populations of the study. The total sample of the study comprised of 200 students: 100 boys and 100 girls of class IX; 100 teachers from 20 government secondary schools of Mizoram were drawn through a simple random sampling technique. A self‐made questionnaire consisting of 23 items, semi‐structured interview, and Focus Group Discussion were used as the techniques of data collection. The study showed that peace education components embedded in the existing curriculum were being taught through cocurricular and extracurricular activities. This article concludes by suggesting that teachers need to consider and include the guiding principles of peace and should encourage students to develop their critical thinking, reasoning, awareness of societal problems and issues, broadening their outlook, and concentrating on studies and to be associated with cocurricular activities.