Education & Policy
Democracy Starts in Room 12B: The Case for Making Peacebuilding a Core School Subject
American classrooms are producing graduates fluent in standardized testing and chronically underprepared for the most essential democratic skill: disagreeing without destroying. The absence of structured conflict resolution education from U.S. K-12 curricula is not a minor gap — it is a systemic failure with consequences that are already reshaping civic life. If we are serious about the future of self-governance, we must be serious about what we teach children before they ever cast a ballot.