Education and Its Role in Activating Tolerance Education to Achieve Peaceful Coexistence (Hammurabi Journal for Studies; Vol.1, No.46)

Achieving and spreading a culture of tolerance has become a necessity for societies to prevail the values of peace, benevolence, coexistence with others, and respect for intellectual and cultural diversity within the same society. Tolerant education and its values are a frame of reference and guide for students' behavior. The value system of individuals represents their beliefs, behaviors, and emotions, as well as their social and interactive attitudes; they also form part of their self-concept. The current research attempts to answer the following question: "What is the role of education in activating tolerance education to achieve peaceful coexistence?" The research also aims to identify the intellectual and theoretical framework of tolerance, and knowing the educational effects of activating tolerance education in order to provide a vision of the role of education in activating tolerance education to achieve peaceful coexistence. The current research adopts the descriptive approach as the most appropriate to the nature of this research.