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Peace Education for Violence Prevention in Fragile African Societies: What’s Going to Make a Difference?

Peace Education for Violence Prevention in Fragile African Societies: What’s Going to Make a Difference?

Though conflicts among (African) nations diminished at the end of the last millennium, the need for peace remains a perennial concern for African citizens within their communities and countries. Once again, Maphosa and Keasley have engaged a collection of scholar practitioners to address the query ‘What’s Going to Make a Difference in Contemporary Peace Education around Africa?’

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Product Information

Format: 

170mm x 245mm

Pages: 

414

ISBN-13: 

978-0-7983-0496-2

Publish Year: 

2016

Rights: 

World rights
Though conflicts among (African) nations diminished at the end of the last millennium, the need for peace remains a perennial concern for African citizens within their communities and countries. Once again, Maphosa and Keasley have engaged a collection of scholar practitioners to address the query ‘What’s Going to Make a Difference in Contemporary Peace Education around Africa?’

I: Introduction: Peace Education

1. The Changing Context and Interaction
2. Towards a Universal Peace Education in Africa?
3. Teaching the Past as if People Mattered: History Education as Peace Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa
4. Contextual Specificity in Peace Education

II: Rejecting Chronic Violence
5. Chronic Violence and Implications for Pedagogy
6. Education: The Blame Shifting Must Stop!
7. Traditional Approaches to Peace in Africa: Examining the Efficacy of Strategies for Peace in a Refugee Context
8. Guns and Cows: Role Played by Government of Uganda and Civil Society Organizations to Disarm the Karimojong in Karamoja

III: Picking up the Pieces
9. Using Implementation Science to Bring Effective Social Emotional Learning to Scale in Fragile African
Contexts
10. Peace Education Pedagogy: Feminist and Intersectional Critical Thinking to Teaching and Learning
11. Trees, Poems and Drama to Create Reflexive Spaces for Peace Building in Schools
12. ‘We Can’t Walk Alone’: Giving Voice to Children’s Fears

IV: Designing for Peace Education
13. Mainstreaming Peace Education in University Curriculum: Assumptions, Approaches and Achievements of this Model in Zimbabwe
14. Education for Peace and Social Cohesion in a Multicultural Society: Observations from Kunene Region, Namibia
15. Transformation Education: Interrogating the Utility of Conflict Transformation Theory in Peace
Education in Plateau State Nigeria
16. Conclusion