Transitional Justice and Education : Engaging Young People in Peacebuilding and Reconciliation

Clara Ramirez-Barat, Martina Schulze

• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9783737008372
• Topic: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Subtopic: Política

This volume addresses the role and importance of education for processes of transitional justice. In the aftermath of conflict and mass violence, education has been one of the tools with which societies have sought to achieve positive transformation. While education has the potential to trigger, maintain, and exacerbate conflict, it has also been designed to promote a deeper, more nuanced understanding of the past and to advance reconciliation, peacebuilding, and prevention. The original contributions in the book reflect on lessons learned from education policies of the past in post-conflict societies and seek innovative, sustainable, and context-sensitive grassroots approaches, designed to advocate critical thinking, values of inclusion and tolerance, and ultimately a culture of peace.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Preface
• Roger Duthie / Clara Ramírez-Barat: Introduction: Addressing the Educational Legacies of Human Rights Violations
• Part I: Designing and Implementing Educational Media and Materials for Transitional Justice
• María Andrea Rocha: Creating Classroom Materials: Efforts to Open up a Debate about Colombia's Armed Conflict
• Denise Bentrovato: Beyond Transitional Justice: Evaluating School Outreach and Educational Materials in Postwar Rwanda and Sierra Leone
• Najwa Belkziz: Education Reforms in Transitional Justice Contexts: Memory Studies versus Human Rights Education in Morocco
• Stefana Fratila: Education for Reconciliation: Transitional Justice in the Aftermath of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
• Part II: Education in Transitional Justice Contexts: Actors and Practices
• Daniel Haumschild: Inappropriate Transgressions: Reanimating Necropolitics via Memorialization in Rwanda
• Sara Clarke-Habibi: Insights from Practice: Lessons from Holocaust Education for the Transitional Justice Classroom
• Jasmina Brankovic: “People's Power” in the Age of Human Rights: Victims' Contributions to Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa
• Nadia Siddiqui: At the Frontlines of Education and Peace: Arts-based Storytelling in the Classroom
• Ties Schelfhout / Ruben Bücking: Building Bridges between Research and Education: The Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation
• About the Authors