Peacemaking at home in the world: Grounding childrens spirituality in peace

• Main Author: Baring, Rito V.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2013
• Subjects: Peace; Children—Religious life; Spirituality; Religion
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/2628
• Institution: De La Salle University

Peace is both a religious and non-religious proposition. Religiously it is articulated within doctrinal categories. In non-religious terms, it is pursued within national and international interests. Non-religious pursuits to peace were often framed within political and some cultural considerations involving adult participants. However, numerous spiritual considerations to peacemaking have traditionally identified children's dispositions as a material for inquiry. This paper described how children's perspectives on peace and peacemaking essentially projected aspects of children's spirituality on peace using some 296 children's essays and drawings on peace. Results showed how peculiar traits of childrens spirituality grounded on peace were strategically nested on domestic order, the world and environment. Peacemaking is homemaking; it is peacemaking at home in the world. © 2013 Taylor and Francis.