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Abstract

School curriculum performs a vital role in strengthening the conceptual understanding of peace in school adolescents. It’s important to evaluate the strength and weakness of school curriculum to incorporate the further strategies to enhance the vision of peace in the adolescents. Keeping in view the emerging violent attitude in the school adolescents, its need of the day to evaluate the school curriculum regarding the curriculum approach about peace teachings. Therefore, keeping in view existing situation of peace in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, its urgent need to evaluate the school curriculum contributions regarding the conceptual understanding of peace in school adolescents (Mahmood, 2010). For this purpose, it is also important to evaluate the school curriculum to explore the further needs and challenges for peacebuilding in the adolescents as well (Hamid, 2011). Therefore, the researcher decided to conduct this study. The purpose of this study was to perception of stakeholders regarding the integration of peace education curriculum at higher secondary school level in Pakistan. It was quantitative study. 284 secondary school teachers and 15 curriculum developers at HSSC level. The sample size of the study consisted of 284 secondary school teachers and 15 curriculum developers at HSSC level. Simple random sampling technique was used in the selection of sample of the study. Selfmade questionnaire was used as research tools in this study. Data were analyzed with the help of SPSS (Version, 24). Percentage, frequency, mean score, standard deviation, and chi-square were used as a statistical tools. The study further recommends that the long-term and short-term goals of the Peace Education Program for peacebuilding environments in schools should be clear from the start to facilitate learning outcomes. Moreover, the government, through the Ministry of Education, needs to make a mechanism for assessing a culture of peacebuilding in schools. Further, the present study may serve as an indication of the need to introduce peace education as a subject in the school curricula of schools in Pakistan.||Keywords: Peace Education, Curriculum, Higher Secondary School Level, Integration.