Schooling for Peaceful Development in Post-Conflict Societies Educat
This book explores how, and if, formal education affects peacebuilding in post-conflict societies. As schooling is often negatively implicated in violent conflict, the author highlights the widely expressed need to ‘build back better’ and ‘transform’ scho
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Schooling for Peaceful Development in Post-Conflict Societies
Clive Harber
Schooling for Peaceful Development in Post-Conflict Societies Education for Transformation?
Clive Harber School of Education University of Birmingham Birmingham, UK
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Preface
The central concern of this book is summarised in the following quotation: Children and youth, in whom visions of national development are invested, are central to post-conflict state-building efforts. Statements such as ‘children are the future’ bring together the fortunes of national development with individual human development. (Pells et al. 2014: 294)
As this book demonstrates in more detail below, the education of young people is increasingly seen as important in peacebuilding in post- conflict societies, that is in helping to create conditions where a violent conflict will not occur again. So much so that in 2011 UNESCO’s annual Global Monitoring Report called for an increase in funding to this area of between $500 million and $1 billion a year (UNESCO 2011). Yet a few years ago I was asked to do a review essay of five books on the role of education in conflict and post-conflict states where education is supposed to play a part in peacebuilding by ‘building back better’, that is to say where schools are re-structured to play an active role in educating for peace and democracy. These were primarily ‘developing’ v
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