Really interest, and would like to know more about peace and how it spread.
In education professional development (aka) training suffers from similar issues. The best kind is enduring and has multiple points of contact through a longish period of time. It seems that training for peace would require a similar set of interventions... with trainers returning periodically and continuous evaluation/reflection. Very hard to do without lots of resources and buy-in... and all of this is assuming the thinking behind peace is a good one.
You are absolutely right - a proper, effective programme of intervention would be enormously resource intensive, and would also require buy-in on the part of the people receiving the training. I suspect that a lot of police officers, not to mention the general public, would rather the tax money was spent directly on keeping the peace and investigating crimes. Still, it would be really interesting to set up and deliver a course that had what we might think of as 'ideal' parameters.
Really interest, and would like to know more about peace and how it spread.
In education professional development (aka) training suffers from similar issues. The best kind is enduring and has multiple points of contact through a longish period of time. It seems that training for peace would require a similar set of interventions... with trainers returning periodically and continuous evaluation/reflection. Very hard to do without lots of resources and buy-in... and all of this is assuming the thinking behind peace is a good one.
You are absolutely right - a proper, effective programme of intervention would be enormously resource intensive, and would also require buy-in on the part of the people receiving the training. I suspect that a lot of police officers, not to mention the general public, would rather the tax money was spent directly on keeping the peace and investigating crimes. Still, it would be really interesting to set up and deliver a course that had what we might think of as 'ideal' parameters.
Agreed. And arguably money spend ramping up traditional policing may have a bigger effect on reducing crimes (at least in the short term).