ABSTRACT

This handbook encompasses a range of disciplines that underlie the field of peace education and provides the rationales for the ways it is actually carried out . The discipline is a composite of contributions from a variety of disciplines ranging from social psychology to philosophy and from communication to political science. That is, peace education is an applied subject which is practiced in differing ways, but must always be firmly based on a range of established empirical disciplines.

The volume is structured around contributions from expert scholars in various fields that underpin peace education, plus contributions from experts in applying peace education in a range of settings, all complemented by chapters which deal with issues related to research and evaluation of peace education.

chapter 1|7 pages

Peace Education

Setting the Scene

part I|51 pages

The Context

chapter 2|10 pages

History of Peace Education

chapter 3|23 pages

Peace Education in Societies Involved in Intractable Conflicts

Goals, Conditions, and Directions

chapter 4|15 pages

Educational Sciences and Peace Education

Mainstreaming Peace Education into (Western) Academia?

part II|123 pages

The Contribution of Underlying Disciplines

chapter 5|11 pages

What Does Peace Psychology Have to Offer Peace Education?

Five Psychologically Informed Propositions

chapter 7|16 pages

Intergroup Contact

Implications for Peace Education

chapter 11|16 pages

Peace and Morality

Two Children of the Same Parents

part III|137 pages

Approaches to Peace Education

chapter 14|14 pages

Storytelling and Multiple Narratives in Conflict Situations

From the TRT Group in the German–Jewish Context to the Dual-Narrative Approach of PRIME

chapter 16|18 pages

Peace Education in the Classroom

Creating Effective Peace Education Programs

chapter 17|11 pages

Building a Shared Future from a Divided Past

Promoting Peace through Education in Northern Ireland

chapter 18|16 pages

Unity-Based Peace Education

Education for Peace Program in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Chronological Case Study

chapter 19|17 pages

Understanding the Roots and Impact of Violence and Psychological Recovery as Avenues to Reconciliation after Mass Violence and Intractable Conflict

Applications to National Leaders, Journalists, Community Groups, Public Education through Radio, and Children

chapter 21|11 pages

Educating for Peace through Planned Encounters between Jews and Arabs in Israel

A Reappraisal of Effectiveness

chapter 22|7 pages

Open-Ended Questions