May be hard for some people to believe with the inundation of media concerning violence, but violence is not easy to incite. It just might seem that way sometimes. In this situation, it requires a stringent adherence to beliefs that are being contested offensively - not easy to do. Firstly, you need to imbue deeply into someone a set of beliefs (and yes, secularist ideals can play a role here). Secondly, you need to do the same to another person, though you must expose extrinsic and insubstantial contradictions (meaning that you will not likely find anything inherent to the set of beliefs that cannot be reconciled: you must fabricate irreconcilability and speciously allocate to something inherent to the belief system).
Education, though not any sort of panacea, gives its pupils the ability to transcend, through the use of critical thinking, the previously mentioned fabrications. It provides an avenue to reconciliation.
I would argue that there is a correlation between education and violence. I would extend that to suggest that there is even a causal relationship between the two. Education gives an individual the tools to become resilient to "brainwashing" - it does not always give additional perspectives, but allows an individual to create and interpret new perspectives.
But I think that this rhetoric ultimately diverges from reality - what is at stake here is not competing beliefs, rather, competing interests. It is no coincidence nor does it help to alleviate the situation that these religions offer explicit avenues to violence, and corollary justifications.
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