Peace Culture Practices Based on Islamic Values Among Secondary School Students in Malaysia

Abstract

Peace Culture has been discussed widely especially in the education field to improve the well-being of students and society. However, the level of Peace Culture practices based on Islamic values among school students are still not widely researched. This study investigates the level of Peace Culture practices based on Islamic values among school students in Malaysia, and also the levels of Peace Culture dimensions which comprising (a) Refrainment (b) Forgiveness (c) Humility (d) Collaboration (e) Communication and (f) Peace. This article also examines teachers’ perspectives on the level of Peace Culture among school students.  A total of 298 students from 9 secondary schools participated in the study. The instrument used in this study is the Peace Culture instrument which was used in Uman’s et al (2019) research. The findings of the study show the practices of Peace Culture among secondary school students is at a high level (min=3.62). As for the dimensions of Peace Culture, the highest level is Communication (min=4.12), followed by Humility (min=4.10), Peace (min=4.06), Refrainment (3.97), and Forgiveness and Collaboration (3.93). It is hoped that the findings of this study can give an overview on the level of Peace Culture among secondary school students in Malaysia thus can assist prompt activities to enhance and sustain the harmony and peace among school students in Malaysia.