Civic Education, JSS 2, Week 4
Topic: Living in peace and harmony with our neighbors and peers
Contents:
- What does it mean to live in peace with others
- How to live in peace with others
- How can we disturb the peace of our neighbors
- What is the result of disturbing other people’s right
What does it mean to live in peace with others
Living in peace is a way of life in which we respect and love each other in spite of our cultural, religious, and political differences. Inwardly, we all need to search our hearts and minds and understand the fear that causes violence and decide to provide solution to it.
Living in peace with others entails the following
- Respecting your neighbors and other people around you
- Realizing everybody has a right and respecting it i.e the right to be heard.
- Taking time to understand the people around you
- Regarding the opinion of other people
How to live in peace with others
- Seek to love and not control others
- Have the ability to tolerate people
- Seek forgiveness and not revenge
- Broaden your understanding of peace
How can we disturb the peace of our neighbors
- By disrespecting their opinions
- Bullying them or bullying their children
- By forcefully taking what belongs to them
- By denying them of their rights
Results of disturbing other people’s Right
- It can lead to punishment
- It can lead to violence and quarrel
- It can lead to underdevelopment in the society
- It causes grieve and hatred among neighbors
Test and Exercise
- Living in peace with our neighbors and peers is possible. True/ false?
- The various means by which we disturb the peace of other people around us are (a) bullying (b) respecting their rights (c) disrespecting their rights (d) forcefully taking what belongs to them
- Living in peace with other people entails you cheating and embracing them. YES /NO
- Disturbing the peace of other people results in (a) love (b) happiness (c) promotion (d) violence
- The following are the ways by which we can live in peace with others except (a) taking time to understand the people around us (b) ability to tolerate people around us (c) creating discord among friends (d) respecting other people’s right. For more notes; see: https://passnownow.com/classwork-support/
