Education and Reconciliation: Exploring Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations

✍ Scribed by Julia Paulson (editor)

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What is the relationship between education and reconciliation initiatives? Who encourages and enacts it and who discourages and detracts from it? Do reconciliatory educational practices offer any insight into the nature of reconciliation as a process? Drawing on international research in numerous countries, including Bosnia Herzegovina, Rwanda, South Africa,Jordan, Peru and the USA, the contributors consider, conceptually and empirically, the role of education in reconciling societies, groups and individuals divided by conflict. These case studies expand conceptual and empirical understandings of the understudied relationship between education and reconciliation and its potential for addressing and repairing the divisions of conflict. Each chapter contains a summary of the key points and issues within the chapter to enable easy navigation, key relevant and contemporary questions to encourage you to actively engage with the material and an annotated list of suggested further reading to support you to take your exploration further. A companion websitesupports the text and provides updates and additional resources.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Education and Reconciliation Julia Paulson
1Young People and Conflict: The Implications for Education Jason Hart
2 Reconciliation Through Relationships Among Teachers and Sub-Saharan African Families in the USA Sarah Dryden-Peterson
3 Education and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland Alan Smith
4 Understanding Responses to Postwar Education Reformin the Multiethnic District of Brcˇko, Bosnia-Herzegovina Briony Jones
5 A Cloud Over the Rainbow Nation? Language, National Reconciliation and Educational Transformation in Post Apartheid South Africa David Johnson
6 Reconciliation Through Educational Reform? Recommendations and Realities in Peru Julia Paulson
7 A Unified Rwanda? Ethnicity, History and Reconciliation in the Ingando Peace and Solidarity Camp James Kearney
Conclusion: Assumptions and Realities Julia Paulson
Index