Su richiesta delle Prof.sse Natascia Bobbo e Marisa Musaio, segnaliamo la Call for Paper della Rivista “Journal of Health Care Education in Practice – JHCEinP” sul tema “Education for Peace”.
War, a complex human phenomenon, has returned forcefully to the centre of international attention, showing all its horrors in Europe and the Middle East. As pedagogists and educators we should not only ask ourselves about the political, economic or religious reasons that provoked it, but we should also examine the cultural and anthropological reasons why people continue to consider violence as the privileged instrument for resolving conflicts.
Maria Montessori (1932-2023) would tell us that it is because we have not done enough to build a peaceful society, creating the conditions in which violence cannot creep into any human relationship as a means of imposing one’s own reasons on another. Aldo Capitini (1955) stated that nonviolence is a kind of attitude that a man or woman should adopt to reject everything that has been constructed through violence, oppression or humiliation of a living being. Freire and Gramsci, albeit at different times but based on only partly dissimilar human experiences (they both experienced imprisonment), affirmed that the oppression of the other can also take place without the use of physical aggression, but simply by using forms of hegemony, extortion of consent and symbolic violence. We must accept that human life is also made up of conflict, for conflict is part of our nature as men and women evolved in an environment whose resources are not unlimited.
Till now, there are many narratives that seek to convince us that violence is the only way to find peace, a peace that is most often understood as the satisfaction of the needs of one regardless of what this means for other people (exploitation, oppression or death) (Sullivan, 2004). Our society is dramatically turning into a society characterised by an atavistic saying: Homo homini lupus. Is it possible that there is no way back? According to some authors, education is the most promising way to change the direction of this drift: educating the new generations for peaceful confrontation between people, teaching reciprocity (Hare, 1972) and the ability to care for the needs of the other as well as our own (Nussbaum, 2016).
But in the neoliberal society, in the school of competitiveness (Baldacci, 2019), what space is left for education for peace? As educational objective with multiple implications, the broad theme of peace in the global context of political scenarios and relations between nations, reaches the depths of education by drawing attention to the centrality of the relationship between those who educate and those who are educated, between young and adult generations, between those who care and those who are cared for. In the perspective of a lasting peace, the educational relationship recalls the importance of building affective and value-oriented relationships, transmitting to the new generation values such as acceptance, understanding, forgiveness, encouragement.
The call for papers for the first issue of Health Education in Practice for 2025 is based on these considerations and aims to collect theoretical reflections, research and educational practices on the theme of peace education.
The following deadlines are suggested to interested authors:

• Submission of an abstract (max. 1000 characters including spaces): 28.02.2025
• Submission of the paper (subject to acceptance of the abstract): 15.04.2025

Please, see the extended call: https://jhce.padovauniversitypress.it/