More specifically, peace-critical thinking skills are critical thinking skills such as decentration, distancing and discernment, which serve :
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to understand interactions between individuals and groups from the perspective of appeasement.
That is, to analyze acts, gestures, decisions and discourses – current or historical – with the aim of grasping which ones promote appeasement and peace – and which ones have produced or will produce the opposite effect, or simply enable it. -
to protect themselves from possible manipulations
(demagogic, identity-based, consumerist or other)
This term and its English translation (peace-critical thinking skills) were formulated by Grains of Peace in 2009 to encourage their teaching at school and in life.