ABSTRACT This paper articulates a normative philosophical justification for Peace Education as a civic duty understood from within the imperatives of democratic political legitimacy. A normative philosophical rationale is present that outlines how and in what ways valid public justification is the source of political legitimacy in a democracy, which in turn gives citizens a justified claim to political rights (including a right to justification) and an education that develops the knowledge and capacity to participate in public justification and critique. From this perspective, political education is a civic duty. It is also argued that democracy faces in two directions, inward toward the basic structure of society and outward toward relations with other nations and peoples. Given this dual nature of democracy it is argued that a basic civic duty to provide peace education as a form of democratic, global, political education to all future citizens is morally imperative. It is argued that we need to educate future citizens as global agents of justice, building a formidable bulwark against arbitrary power and constituting the means for the realization of a just peace. Peace education should be affirmed as a civic duty at the heart of democracy in an interdependent world.

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和平教育的当务之急：和平教育作为公民义务的民主理由

摘要 本文阐明了将和平教育作为公民义务的规范哲学理由，该义务是从民主政治合法性的必要条件中理解的。存在规范的哲学原理，概述了有效的公共辩护如何以及以何种方式成为民主政治合法性的来源，这反过来又使公民对政治权利（包括辩护权）有正当的要求，并通过教育发展参与公共辩护和批评的知识和能力。从这个角度来看，政治教育是一项公民义务。也有人认为，民主面向两个方向，向内面向社会的基本结构，向外面向与其他国家和人民的关系。鉴于民主的这种双重性质，有人认为向所有未来公民提供和平教育作为一种民主、全球、政治教育形式的基本公民义务在道德上是必要的。有人认为，我们需要将未来的公民教育为全球正义的代理人，建立一个强大的堡垒反对专制权力，并构成实现公正和平的手段。在一个相互依存的世界中，和平教育应被确认为民主核心的公民义务。