Background
The broad objectives of non-violence education (NVE) include;

• Promote non-violence values and attitudes (autonomy, responsibility, co-operation, creativity and solidarity);
• Learn to live together, respecting the differences and similarities;
• Develop a co-operative learning based on dialogue and intercultural understanding;
• To adopt non-violence solutions to conflicts through mediations and conflict-resolving strategies;
• Targeting the children and young people, particularly in the school educational process to integrate peace and non-violence in theory and practice; and
• Integrating non-violence in every aspect of teaching and learning processes, including curriculum development activities, teacher training and management of the educational institutions.

Over the years the United Nations, particularly the UNESCO, have developed a number of standard-setting instruments, declarations and action plans; which are widely accepted by the international communities and which provided basic framework for promoting the concept of education for a culture of peace worldwide.

The United Nations General Assembly declared 2000 the International Year for a Culture of Peace and the Decade 2001-2010 as the International Decade for the Promotion of Non-Violence and Peace for the Children of the World.

Strategies and Activities
SANKALP has been professing peace and non-violence as holistic concepts and practices that reject aggression and violence to achieve a peaceful society. The emphasis is on peaceful and constructive co-existence, and resolution of conflict and conflict-ridden situations. The historic contributions of two best known proponents of the theory and practice of non-violence, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, which provide powerful strategies and advantages of non-violence, are sought to be propagated and disseminated by the Organisation.

The Organisation’s activities on peace and human rights education are focused on a set of integrated activities, which include;

• establishing and facilitating networks of Organisations, both non governmental and governmental to promote exchange of information, experiences and good practices on education for a culture of peace and non-violence;
• involving the educational institutions; with partnerships of the parents, local self-government and grassroots Organisations to promote human rights education;
• orientation courses for the students;
• capacity-building and training for teachers, teacher educators and educational administrations;
• integrating principles and strategies of non-violence and culture of peace into all subject areas and disciplines in the curriculum by taking into account the local realities and traditions, within the cultural diversity and international framework; and
• promotion of advocacy of the principles and practices of non-violence and culture of peace in education by particularly involving the decision-makers and leaders of opinion.