Human rights and peace are essential elements for sustainable development, social justice and the development of a culture of equal rights for all. The value and the importance of a positive approach to Human Rights and towards Peace Building will provide essential support in developing self-respect, equality, brotherhood, attitude of non violence, reconciliation and social harmony in the society. There is no doubt that the situation of gross human rights violations experienced across the country in the past has made the citizens of Nepal unable to guide the country in a positive direction towards enhancing human rights development and a in turn a prosperous society. Therefore, it is a necessity for the country to be united and to move ahead with a culture of self-respect for each other in order to establish a sustainable peace and develop human rights culture within the society. A human rights culture cannot develop in a country unless the awareness level of the people are improved. To ensure that this awareness is increased it is the responsibility of the state to provide a quality ducation (including messages about peace and equal rights) to the children as they are the nation builders of tomorrow. An effective method of student-oriented teaching and learning will not be possible until the knowledge of children's rights, women rights and human rights are learnt by all the students. It has therefore become essential to impart practical training on human rights and peace education to the teachers and facilitators. This training will assist them in realizing the above mentioned issues, as the students spend most of their time in a school environment and this has direct impact on their behavior. Whilst there have been some positive changes developed within the field of child rights it is still not enough to satisfied the requirements for human rights violations to cease. The major challenges before Nepal are the:

• use of child labour,
• involvement of children working without wages,
• deprivation of a significant number of children from education,
• Indifference of Nepali rulers and decision makers towards child rights and their social conditions.

Nepal will not have the necessary freedoms which a peaceful country requires until these challenges are addressed and resolved. The present situation in the context of child rights is not a satisfactory one for most of the organizations and individuals who are involved in this field. Now that society has become more aware on its civil, political, economic, social and religious rights movements to improve them have been set up across the country. The 'No peace without justice' movement is an example of how this approach has worked in practice. Activists have been contributing their efforts towards providing justice through a peaceful movement. However the paradox is that the Nepal authorities have a practice of only listening to the voices which are raised through violent activities. It is essential that human right activists should challenge the authorities and at the same time select an effective non-violent method of promoting their messages which will help to compel the authorities to recognize them. To support the desire that awareness needs to be increased and as a result of the dissatisfaction set out above IHRICON has published a Peace Education Training Manual in Nepali as well as in English with the financial support of Save the Children Norway Nepal (SCNN). It is recognized that the current state education system is not suitable to satisfy this present need or to work within this context. We find that technical and vocational education is the need of the hour due to the economic needs of the country as the many financial challenges are increasing within society day by day. Whilst this situation is in existence a discourse with the teenage students about democracy, human rights, peace and justice has already begun to occur. The experience of finding out more about human rights and equality initially gives them more concerns than the skills and methods to tackle the problems. This is particularly the case when presented with information about the children who have suffered so badly particularly during the Armed Conflict. Due to traditional method of teaching these issues have become difficult for them to debate and understand. It is our view that peace will not prevail in Nepal unless the teaching methods are modified in line with the requirements which are set out in the training module. Set out below is the complete document:

• "Peace Education Training Manual" English / Nepali Version- 2008