Air, soil, water and animals face a lot of challenges due mainly to the negative attitudes of the people in my community. Consequently, these elements are gradually denatured and depleted, this poses a potential danger not to the elements only, but also to the community depending on them for livelihood in one way or the other. To address this situation, we think the best way is to teach youngsters a form of respect for our planet. .
The concept of "Ubuntu"" appears to be the most reliable foundation for an environmental peace education, mainly because at class six the children are moving in to the teen age and should have already internalized the importance of sharing concern (ubuntu), of reciprocal relationship between themselves and others. If diplomatic,conflict resolution and Emergency intervention efforts are informed by ˜Ubuntu' better and long lasting solutions could be achieved. What therefore is ˜Ubuntu' and how can it help in the respect of our environment for a pacific coexistence.
(B). Ubuntu according to the Liberian peace activist Leymah Ghowee is defined in terms of " I am what I am because of who we all are". To Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu Ubuntu is the fact that we cannot exist in isolation and still maintain our humanity; it dictates good attitudes and shared concern; it is an ethic of reciprocity, a form of a Golden Rule; and in this respect ubuntu goes beyond the walls of African value system by which Global citizenship could be taught. This is evident if we look at the use of this (ubuntu) as a concept by some western cultures. Baron d'Holbach (1770) said .
"A person perceives that it is other people who are most necessary to the welfare of man. " Republican U.S president Theodore Roosevelt in a speech in 1903 said" it is all-essential to the continuance of our healthy national life that we should recognize this community of interest among our people.
