Peace Education : The Concept, Principles, and Practices Around the World

by Salomon, Gavriel; Nevo, Baruch; Perkins, David N.; Harris, Ian M.

• ISBN13: 9780805841930
• ISBN10: 0805841938
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Peace Education: * presents views on the nature of peace education, its history, and relationships to neighboring fields; * examines relevant psychological and pedagogical principles, such as the contact experience, conciliation through personal story telling, reckoning with traumatic memories, body-work, and the socio-emotional aspects of reconciliation; and * introduces an array of international examples from countries, such as Croatia, Northern Ireland, Israel, South Africa, Rwanda, and the United States in order to generalize lessons learned. A "must have" for all those thinking, planning, conducting, and studying peace education programs, it is intended for scholars, students, and researchers interested in peace and conflict resolution in higher education and volunteer and public organizations. Its cross disciplinary approach will appeal to those in social and political psychology, communication, education, religion, political science, sociology, and philosophy.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Contributors	xv
PART I: THE CONCEPT
The Nature of Peace Education: Not All Programs Are Created Equal	3	(12)
Gavriel Salomon
Conceptual Underpinnings of Peace Education	15	(12)
Ian Harris
The Elusive Nature of Peace Education	27	(10)
Daniel Bar-Tal
Paradoxes of Peace and the Prospects of Peace Education	37	(18)
David Perkins
The Gordian Knot Between Peace Education and War Education	55	(8)
Ruth Firer
Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Peace Education	63	(10)
Svi Shapiro
From Healing Past Wounds To the Development of Inclusive Caring: Contents and Processes of Peace Education	73	(16)
Ervin Staub
PART II: UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES
Understanding the Conditions and Processes Necessary for Intergroup Contact to Reduce Prejudice	89	(20)
Nurit Tal-Or
David Boninger
Faith Gleicher
Conciliation Through Storytelling: Beyond Victimhood	109	(8)
Dan Bar-On
Friendship, Contact, and Peace Education	117	(10)
Charles Kadushin
David Livert
Postresolution Processes: Instrumental and Socioemotional Routes to Reconciliation	127	(16)
Arie Nadler
The Commonality of the Body: Pedagogy and Peace Culture	143	(12)
Sherry B. Shapiro
Memory Work and the Remaking of the Future: A Critical Look at the Pedagogical Value of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Peace	155	(10)
Crain Soudien
PART III: THE PRACTICE
Belgium: The Triangle of Peace--Education, Legislation, Mediation	165	(12)
Johan Leman
Croatia: For Peace Education in New Democracies	177	(10)
Dinka Corkalo
Israel: An Integrative Peace Education in an NGO-The Case of the Jewish-Arab Center for Peace at Givat Haviva	187	(6)
Sarah Ozacky-Lazar
Cyprus: A Partnership Between Conflict Resolution and Peace Education	193	(16)
Maria Hadjipavlou
Israel: Empowering Arab and Jew--School Leadership in Acre	209	(8)
Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz
Devorah Eden
Northern Ireland: The Impact of Peacemaking in Northern Ireland on Intergroup Behavior	217	(12)
Ed Cairns
Miles Hewstone
Rwanda: Attaining and Sustaining Peace	229	(8)
Cecile Mukarubuga
South Africa: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a Model of Peace Education	237	(10)
Penny Enslin
PART IV: THE RESEARCH
Head First versus Feet First in Peace Education	247	(12)
Clark McCauley
Conceptual Mapping and Evaluation of Peace Education Programs: The Case of Education for Coexistence Through Integroup Encounters Between Jews and Arabs in Israel	259	(12)
Ifat Maoz
Peace Education Programs and the Evaluation of their Effectiveness	271	(12)
Baruch Nevo
Iris Brem
Author Index	283	(6)
Subject Index	289