The present study aims at investigating the procedures and processes that facilitate peace education programs (PEP) for pre-school children in the Sultanate of Oman. The main issue that this study tries to handle is that Omani educational curriculum is entirely based on traditional approaches and methods that overwhelmingly lack to dynamism and modernism of well-formulated modern criteria of primary-school curriculum. This thus makes the curriculum not keep up with the technological advances concerning school education. The study adopts experimental research method and pictorial estimate. The study proposes systematically effective methods, procedures and processes of classroom teaching. This is presented in a well-formulated peace education program targeting pre-school children aged between 4 to 6 years. The proposed program consists of 28 training sessions to be conducted in 15 weeks at the rate of one hour per session. The study finds that it is very essential to train and teach children importance of peace since childhood, as this helps them feel inner peace, satisfied with themselves and with the surrounding environment around them. Therefore, the possibility of children’s being violent is very less.
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