Cultivating Peace Model for Development of Peaceful Life Competencies of Adolescents

Abstract

Violence is adolescents an important topic for educators and school psychologists. Adolescents commit violence, destruction or persecution because they do not how to resolve conflict constructively. The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of cultivating peace model for developing students’ peaceful competencies. The study used a quantitative approach, quasi-experimental methods, with pre-test and post-test control group design. The participants were 10 th -grade students of X Senior High School in West Java that divide into the control group (25 students) and experimental group (28 students) were determined by purposive sampling technique. The instrument used is a peaceful competency instrument from APEID using the rating scale model. Based on the results of the Mann Whitney U-test with the acquisition of p = 0.247, because of p> 0.05 means that the cultivation peace program ineffective to develop peaceful competencies of students. The development of peaceful and harmonious living competencies requires supporting factors to influence the process of inculcating a culture of peace such as the involvement of schools in the implementation of a culture of peace in schools, and the inculcation of other core values of peace.