This academic paper begins by arguing that mainstream peace education focuses solely on the state level and is thus complicit in nation-building by perpetuating state-based values and norms. The paper goes on to detail…
This report adds to the literature on peace education by highlighting the importance of formal schools in providing knowledge and skills but also in shaping social and cultural values, norms, attitudes, dispositions,…
This academic article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the theory of Peace Education and the differences within the field. The paper begins by providing a brief history of peace education, including the…
This piece of academic literature is situated in the critical peace sub-discipline of peace education, and starts off by describing the different theoretical threads of peace education, with reference to Johan…
This brief introduction to peace literature explains the main tenets and concepts used in the burgeoning field. Author Antony Adolf argues that peace literature as a genre uses the subgenre of tragicomedy to evoke…
This article is in a response to the phenomenon of student conflict and violence that occurs in universities and further argues for the development of peace education to be based on jurisprudential inquiry, which is a…
This article offers a gender perspective on peace education, investigating how socializing young boys and girls is often different when teaching them concepts of care, empathy, and violence. By addressing themes of…
In this chapter, the authors delve into existing research on the effects of mindfulness training on brain development. They draw on the evidence that mindfulness training physically reshapes the brain, both by…
In this chapter, Daniel P. Liston explores the thesis “that love and attention to inner, other, and outer realms are central to teaching, and that many teachers who have the potential to be excellent teachers leave…
This chapter outlines The Inner Resilience Program (IRP), a program created in the wake of the terrorist attack on the 11. September 2001 in New York by a group of concerned educators and mental health practitioners.…