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    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

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