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Recommendations
Certainly, curriculum development is a challenging activity. Not all subjects can be accommodated in
a core curriculum. The decision regarding what gets
left out of the core curriculum is never easy. But difficulty in deciding what is most important should not
keep us from making tough decisions. Simply because
a subject has always been a part of the core curriculum should not afford it privileged status. Change
is constant, and curricula should be flexible enough
to address a constantly changing global context. The
wicked problems we face require practitioners who
are multi-literate, and one of the most critical literacies is religion.
One-way of adjusting a curriculum to include the
study of religion an its impact in peacebuilding is to
employ an approach that diffuses it throughout existing classes. Integrating the investigation of religion
into