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This book provides a critical reflection on the relationship between education, conflict, war and peace and the global actors and practitioners that have devised strategies to engage and support education systems in conflict-affected contexts.
Exploring a wide range of issues from development assistance to education, peacebuilding, de-radicalisation programmes and global governance, it evidences the challenges and the promises of educations complex relationship to war and peace. The book highlights the fields entanglements with geopolitics and imperial interventions, which have shaped its actions and undermined and limited its potential to support social transformation towards peace with social justice.
1. Introduction: Towards a Critical Political Economy of Education and
Conflict
2. The Global Governance of Education and Conflict: The Emergence of a
Subservient Field
3. Education, War and Peace: A critical Review
4. Peace Education, Transformation and Pacification
5. Education, Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace: Systemic Challenges and
Approaches
6. Violent Attacks on Education: Dynamics and Debates
7. The Securitization and Militarization of Education: From Post 9/11
realities to PREVENT
8. Social Movements, Popular Education and Resistance: Radical Alternatives
to Building Peace with Social Justice in Conflict Affected Contexts
9. Critical Conclusions: Between Pessimism and the Politics of Hope
Mario Novelli is Professor in the Political Economy of Education at the Centre for International Education (CIE), University of Sussex and Visiting Professor, NRF SARChI Chair in Community, Adult and Workers' Education, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
