Essentials of peace culture development among state universities and colleges in the philippines: the faculty encounter

The study investigated the essentials of building a peace culture among State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) in the Philippines. It determined the extent of importance of each identified essential factor, namely: adhering to constitutional and human rights; fostering democratic participation; respecting academic freedom; advancing understanding, tolerance, and solidarity; supporting participatory communication and free flow of information; promoting safe and healthy working environment; and equal access to opportunities in public service. It examined the presence of significant difference among these essential factors and the existence of significant relationships among the ratings of the respondents on the same. The researcher-made instrument adopting the 4-point scale rating, where138 faculty federated officials of SUCs were respondents. It employed mean, one-way repeated measure ANOVA, correlation coefficient, t-test, and tested the hypotheses at 5% error margin. The results disclosed these seven indicators being “very much important” essentials for building peace culture, with “equal access to opportunities in public service” as the highest and “promoting safe and healthy working environment”, the lowest. These essentials were significantly different among each other, though the ratings of faculty underscored the remarkable relationships among these essentials for setting peace culture among SUCs. Peace education efforts is pivotal among SUCs.