The Characteristics of Youth Peace Engineers in Educational Institutions
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The objectives of this article are: to study the meaning and important of Youth Peace Engineers, and to study the characteristics of Youth Peace Engineers in Educational Institutions. Using field qualitative-research methods by studying documents, and in-depth interviews. From the article, it is found the followings: 1) Youth Peace Engineers are youth with peace-loving nature who have a realistic of the world, good communication skills, faith and adhere to religious principles, leadership in working with others, have conflict management skills, have a public mind and want to help fellow human being to coexist peacefully. 2) The characteristics of the Youth Peace Engineers in Educational Institutions are having internal peace, having spiritual strength and self-reliance, having compassion, not wanting to hurt others, having love and respect for self and others, being a good communicator and listening with wide open heart, and speaking with wisdom, being a compromiser, bring knowledge about religious principles and Buddhist Peaceful Means to manage conflicts and enhance peace.
In regard of the ideological goals, they are realizing values and having confidence in peaceful means that are the ways to overcome conflicts, creating benefits for one-self and others and devoting, sacrificing, being a devotee, a giver and someone who likes to share.
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