Conflict Management and Education: A Path to a More Peaceful Society - Le Temps

2023-12-31 09:08:04

Published on December 31, 2023 at 10:08. / Modified on December 31, 2023 at 10:10.

So often deplored, from the family table to the coffee machine, is the polarization of society inevitable? “Le Temps” devotes a series of articles to the conflictuality of our debates and probes the avenues to get out of it.

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Before being an adult capable of debating and managing otherness with grace (or not), each of us was a child confronted with our frustration, our emotions, our difficulties. Teaching children and adolescents to live together is the task that falls to all education professionals. Some, and especially some, have made cooperation and conflict management their core business.

This is the case of the members of the Graines de Paix Foundation, recognized as being of public utility, whose mission is “to encourage full, quality education which promotes the academic success of all children as well as their development through ‘inclusion, prevention of violence and a culture of peace’. In the Geneva premises warmed by one of the very rare rays of sunshine in November, three generations of women take their place to present the programs planned for 2024 in French-speaking Switzerland. Former high-flying executive in strategic marketing and former economist at the OECD, Delia Mamon, founder of Graines de Paix in 2005, has been trying for twenty years to give another meaning to her daily life.