Part <scp>II</scp>: Statistics in practice: Nature of data, descriptive statistics, and presentation of data

Haas, Curtis E.

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“…Data was subsequently subjected to the 22 version of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) to ensure the data's validity, authenticity, and reliability [67,68]. Principle Component Analysis (PCA) as recommended by Stevens [69] was used by the researcher to summarize and re-orient variables that capture veritable information from the original variables, which information was effectively presented in textual, graphical, and tabular forms, per the recommendations of Haas [70] and In & Lee [71].…”

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Traditional Peace Education and its Conflict Prevention Role among Indigenous Ghanaian Societies

Benson¹

2023

Curr Res Psychol Behav Sc

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Among the varied United Nations (UN) conflict containment templates, the ‘Peace Education’ concept is of relative novelty. Nonetheless, it has proven to be an effective conflict prevention tool at all societal levels. However, long before its official acceptance as a conflict prevention mechanism by the UN, traditional peace education had deep roots in Africa where parents and society have consciously thought the youth the essence of peaceful coexistence. In particular, Ghanaian children at their early stages through to adulthood are taken through lessons of several virtues at home that include love, togetherness, equality, fairness, tolerance, forgiveness, hospitality, reconciliation, and the fear of God, amongst others in terms of peace education. This study examined the conflict-preventive role of traditional peace education in Ghana. Accordingly, the study used an exploratory mixed-method approach to seek the views of 30 participants qualitatively and 1456 respondents quantitatively. It also relied on the content analysis of secondary and tertiary sources using sociological and historical approaches. The findings are that peace education via both formal and informal channels has become a key conflict prevention tool of the United Nations, and peace education has the potential and prospects of preventing conflicts in the 21st Century. Further, Ghana is recognized globally as one of the most peaceful countries in the world as largely attributed to its adherence to traditional home-grown lessons on peace education. Following challenges regarding the fullscale implementation of both formal and informal peace education in Ghana, the paper amongst others recommend that peace education programs should be incorporated into the regular school curriculums, with the total commitment of the government in terms of implementation and funding. Moreover, to prevent conflicts at the local level, there is a need to build the capacities of communities in terms of knowledge and skills in peace education.

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Traditional Peace Education and its Conflict Prevention Role among Indigenous Ghanaian Societies

Benson¹

2023

Curr Res Psychol Behav Sc

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“…This study purposively made use of a combination of three forms of presentation methods of statistical data so as to give the clearest of understanding to the overall trend of the findings, namely; textual, tabular and graphical. In line with these powerful communication tools, information was presented in text, tables, bar, pie and linear charts (Haas, 2020;WHO, 2014). These information dissemination tools according to In and Lee (2017), have the potential of making write-ups easy to understand, attract and sustain the interest of readers of the said article, as well as efficiently presenting large and complex information.…”

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Linking the Peace-loving Nature of Ghanaians to Traditional Peace Educational Practices: Myth or Reality?

Benson

2021

IJCM

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Purpose: The 2013 version of the International Day of Peace was dedicated to peace education, by way of drawing the attention of the international community to the pre-eminence of peace education as that channel of achieving the much sort for global culture of peace. Before then, many countries notably Ghana, had long been in the process of cultivating the culture of peace via the practices of peace education within the traditional setting, even if in its remotest form. In large part, Ghanaians are peace-loving people, attributable to the traditional peace education lessons that children receive from parents and the society at their formative stages. This study in examining this assertion, also seeks to determine to what extent peace educational practices in both the traditional and global senses, have shaped the Ghanaian peace-loving nature. Methodology: The study adopted the quantitative approach where semi-structured questionnaires were administered to 1450 randomly selected respondents across Ghana. The age range of respondents which are between 10 and 60 and above, comprise 1019 (70.3 %) males and 431 (29.7 %) females from all walks of life. Findings: The study while empirically evidencing that Ghanaians are peace-loving people, also established a link between this peace culture and the basic lessons children receive from parents and the society at their formative stages, about peace. Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The paper calls on the government of Ghana in particular and other peace education actors in general, to work assiduously towards the effective blending of traditional (informal) and global (formal) peace educational practices within Ghana, as well as, enhance peace education in the country by building the capacity of communities and schools in financial, technical, and logistical terms. Indeed, this paper which is the first-ever study into traditional peace education in Ghana, uniquely adds to academic literature and serves as a useful guide for practitioners and policy makers in the study area.

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Part II: Statistics in practice: Nature of data, descriptive statistics, and presentation of data

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Traditional Peace Education and its Conflict Prevention Role among Indigenous Ghanaian Societies

Traditional Peace Education and its Conflict Prevention Role among Indigenous Ghanaian Societies

Linking the Peace-loving Nature of Ghanaians to Traditional Peace Educational Practices: Myth or Reality?

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