In “This is the Water”, psychiatrists Thomson and Tasman (2022) point out the growing awareness that health care currently has a very limited role in the production of health. They urge the health fraternity to be more proactive with respect to the social determinants of mental health. To support their call, this chapter emphasizes optimum health to refer to health that includes the social determinants of mental health and physical health.
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The Universal Language of Sustaining Quality Peace and Resilience: Enhancing Learning and Harmony Across Cultures
Mafole Sematlane (MakeOver Institution Building, Lesotho)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5034-5.ch009
Abstract
Humanity's traditional approach to social problems, inequities, and abuses has been a deficit approach, using force, largely reactive, taking recourse to legalistic action, protests, or demonstrations. Social problems, inequities, and abuses continue despite efforts at building peace and resilience. Experts say that society knows very little about what peace is, and what it is not, because it studies peace only in terms of war, violence, aggression, and conflict. They advise that power (love) accomplishes with ease what force (fear, separation – legalistic action, warfare, protests, etc.) even with extreme effort cannot. This chapter introduces the universal language of and the underlying processes for sustaining quality peace and resilience as the means for affecting the necessary change from the deficit approach to power-based approaches. Teaching and learning the language of sustaining quality peace and resilience at all levels of education will contribute to quality education and education equity significantly.