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Books on Peace Education: Call for Manuscripts
an article by Ian Harris, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
CPNN readers are invited to submit manuscripts for peace
education to the series I am editing along with Jing Lin of the
University of Maryland and Edward J. Brantmeier, Colorado State
University.
We welcome manuscripts that address how peace education
provides information about the roots of conflicts and strategies for
peace. Peace education is an important part of peace-building, which
helps avoid major conflicts by building a culture of peace through
generating peaceful attitudes, dispositions, values, behaviors,
action-orientations, and social structures. Books in this series will
address how education can contribute to building a culture of peace by
teaching: tolerance; diversity affirmation; common understanding;
intercultural empathy; reconciliation; renewal; compassion; conflict
management skills; and a variety of nonviolent, peace-building skills.
The editors welcome studies from a wide variety of
disciplines—curriculum theory, educational psychology, history,
philosophy, anthropology, and sociology of education, teacher
education, comparative and international education, critical theory,
cultural studies, language education, feminist studies, religious
studies, and environmental education.
In our times, peace education efforts can be positive,
integrative, restorative, generative, and transformative. In other
words, rather than defining peace education in the negative such as
education for the elimination of violence, peace education efforts can
be understood in the positive as creative, generative efforts that
integrate knowledge and action, that integrate differences in ways that
both honor diversity and establish common ground. Peace education works
on bringing people together. This series on peace education hopes to
illuminate the problems, challenges, and rewards associated with using
educational means to diminish/eliminate and avoid conflicts.
How effective is peace education in bringing about peace? What
are its strengths and weaknesses as a strategy to achieve peace? How is
peace education carried out in different venues—colleges, schools, and
community groups? How is peace taught in different cultures? The
editors welcome manuscripts about war and peace and other peace studies
themes that exhibit a clear connection to teaching and learning for
solutions to promoting harmony and to building a peaceful world.
Click here for examples of possible titles and descriptions of books already published in the series.
Submit your proposal to imh@uwm.edu
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DISCUSSION
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What are the most important books about the culture of peace?
Peace Education Books and Possible Titles
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A READING LIST FOR CULTURE OF PEACE
COMPLETE REPORTS
Latest reader comment:
Here
are some possible titles for peace education books, followed by
descriptions of three books that have already been published in the
series.
• Promoting Peace Language Education for a Peaceful World
• Voices and Actions of Peace from Youth
• Integrating Peace Education in Teacher Education
• Transforming Higher Education for Peace-Building
• Disarmament Education and Demilitarization Education: Past, Present and Future
• The Teaching of Love, Peace and Wisdom: A New Understanding of World Religions
• Leaders of Peace Education: Leadership for Transformation
• Creative Peace Education in Elementary Schools
• Creative Peace Education in Secondary Schools
• Peace Education & Environmental Sustainability
• Inner Peace: The New Role of Education for Peace-Building
• Cyber Peace: Technology as a Means for Peace Education
• Critical Pedagogy as Peace Education
• Cultural Variations of Peace Education
• Peace Education: Resilience and Reconciliation
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