Conflict Education. Peace Education.

We consciously link the question of much-needed harmony, toleration and respect
for diversity with honest explorations of the absence, in reality, of these attitudes in
society and our institutional attitudes and frameworks. We believe that it is only
because of this that our efforts at evincing genuine responses from children are
fruitful. Which is not to say, or claim, that within weeks of the magic wand in
operation, the children we work with fall in line with our goals.

But we at KHOJ can confidently say that within a few years of the KHOJ module in
operation, children are asking questions that they never did before - about society, their
teachers and their parents. Children's Rights.

Our methods of teaching history - including the History of World Religions,
Local History, Family Histories, Sub-Continental History and Modern Indian History and
World History - within the first year itself have generated an enthusiastic and
explorative interest in history, a subject that bored students and was actively disliked by
them before.

This would not be the case if KHOJ merely gave discourses on communal harmony or
lectured on the unity and sameness of all religions, or merely concentrated on
celebrating festivals together without seriously exploring the conflicts that have dogged
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