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Violence and conflict have attracted much attention in modern times due to the need for peaceful coexistence in communities. One way of handling conflicts is through effective conflict transformation. Conflict Transformation is the process of transition from systems to systems used conflict to peace.

Conflict in the process of change can be achieved through various processes, including capacity building for peace for teachers, curriculum developers, trainers and the importance of learners. The teacher is essential in this process, because ‘teacher has the burden of proving a key role in the curriculum of the processes leading to changes in attitudes and behavior of students who, in turn, affect the entire community and society in general.

Given these, see how language teachers can facilitate the process of conflict transformation?

First, the language teachers to be ambassadors for peace in the country. If teachers are assigned to teach in areas outside their home districts, they can help promote peace. Mutual respect, humility and willingness to learn from each others languages will enable teachers and students to reach across barriers of age, culture, gender, geography, time and even war, to heal the past.

In the classroom, the teacher can promote a safe and positive environment for learning is a prerequisite for peace, respecting the dignity and rights of all students. By infusing the school setting and content, either express or implied, with values of respect and tolerance for difference. This should help students acquire new linguistic forms, intercultural awareness and interpersonal relationships. Therefore, they can begin to remove barriers and transform the interactions, whether in the classroom, workplace, community, or beyond.

In teaching vocabulary, reading, speaking and writing, language teachers can ensure that revolve around themes of peace and conflict. In this case, the teacher encourages students to the voices and writings of the proponents of international non-violence as Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, Jr., and encouraged to develop critical arguments and reasons for their personal beliefs about violence and non-violence throughout the debate.

Finally, teachers explore new ways of speaking students to experiment with different forms of expression, as the debate and dialogue. Is to compare and contrast the students speaking and listening skills jobs, the impact they have and the contexts in which certain styles may be more useful or appropriate. The teacher should also explore techniques such as mediation, and Non-violent Communication.

Therefore, language teachers can participate in conflict transformation through the integration of conflict transformation and peace-building ideas in their delivery of content in the classroom.