Special Symposium on Education and Violent Political Conflict

Mar 24, 2009

The spring 2009 issue of the Harvard Educational Review includes a special symposium on Education and Violent Political Conflict, in which eight authors consider the relationship between conflict and education by examining how schooling is used both to interrupt and to perpetuate violence. In this collection of essays, practitioners and scholars offer their perspectives on educational projects in select regions of the world currently embroiled in conflict. Here are the contents of the symposium: 

Education and Violent Political Conflict: Introduction by the Editors

Identity versus Peace: Identity Wins
Zvi Bekerman

Citizenship Competencies in the Midst of a Violent Political Conflict: The Colombian Educational Response
Enrique Chaux

War News Radio: Conflict Education through Student Journalism
Emily Hager

The Other Side of the Story: Israeli and Palestinian Teachers Write a History Textbook Together
Shoshana Steinberg and Dan Bar-On

Curriculum and Civil Society in Afghanistan
Adele Jones

Educational Reconstruction “By the Dawn’s Early Light”: Violent Political Conflict and American Overseas Education Reform
Noah W. Sobe

The Social (and Economic) Implications of Being an Educated Woman in Iran
Mitra Shavarini

Interview with Jacques Bwira Hope Primary School Kampala, Uganda
The Editors