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Education for National Integration and Development of Peace has been an area of continuous efforts in the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). The policy documents dealing with education too have stressed the need for Education for bringing National Integration and peace. National Policy on Education 1986, National Curriculum Framework for School Education, 2000 and the National Curriculum Framework, 2005 emphasised ethical development, inculcating the values, attitudes and skills required for living in harmony with oneself and with others, including nature such as human rights, justice, tolerance, co-operation, social responsibility, non-violence and respect for cultural diversity etc. The National Curriculum Framework (NCF), 2005 brought out by the NCERT, highlighted that “…education is a significant dimension of the long-term process of building peace – tolerance, justice, intercultural understanding and civic responsibility. ….as a value it cuts across all curricular areas and coincides with and complements the values emphasized therein”. (p.61). Education should aim to build a commitment to democracy and the values of equality, justice, freedom, concern for others’ well-being, secularism, respect for human dignity and rights. NCF, 2005 emphasised ethical development, inculcating the values, attitudes and skills required for living in harmony with oneself and with others, including nature such as human rights, tolerance, co-operation, social responsibility, non-violence and respect for cultural diversity etc. Education should aim to build a commitment to these values, which are based on reason and understanding. The curriculum, therefore, should provide adequate experience and space for dialogue and discourse in the school to build such commitment in children.Education to be meaningful should empower individuals to choose peace as a way of life and enable them to become managers rather than passive spectators of conflict. Aims of education are inclusive of nurturing a culture imbibed with values of peace as an “incontestable goal of education. Education to be meaningful should empower individuals to choose peace as a way of life and enable them to become managers rather than passive spectators of conflict. Education should aim to build a commitment to democracy and the values of equality, justice, freedom, concern for others’ well-being, secularism, respect for human dignity and rights. Education should aim to build a commitment to these values, which are based on reason and understanding. The curriculum, therefore, should provide adequate experience and space for dialogue and discourse in the school to build such commitment in children.