Peace Education: A Failed Subject. Contributions from Benedict XVI

Abstract

The speech of Benedict XVI for the 45th World Day of Peace, whose title is “Educating Young People in Justice and Peace”, has put on the table the question about whether is possible to avoid wars and which should be the most efficient instruments to do that. One of the main pillars of the stability of the international system is the education, understood, on one hand, as a process through which it is possible to acquire knowledge and skills useful for the labor market, and, on the other, as a process of assimilation, by the new generations side, of such values and criteria in order to build a social order fairer and more stable.