Education
Education can refer to both the experience of life long learning and the technical process through which information is deliberately accumulated and cascaded through society.While the term education is often used to refer to primary, secondary and tertiary systems, the vast majority of learning takes place outside formal institutions. Education can therefore be better understood as a combination of knowledge, skills and values that can encompass religious teachings or learning through radio programmes for instance. In numerous conflict environments education has become a contested resource and source of conflict, fought over for its infrastructure, access to and influence over the population and curriculum.
Documents
USIP Peace Briefing: An Education Track for the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
| Date added: | 11/03/2011 |
Author:Barbara Zasloff, Adina Shapiro, and A. Heather Coyne
Institution:United States Institute for Peace (USIP)
Publication Date: 2009
Keywords: Education, Peace Processes
Read Full Text Here: http://www.usip.org/files/resources/education_israeli-palestinian_peace.pdf
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Where education is highly contested, it may be necessary to incorporate provisions within peace negotiations and agreements. This paper suggests opportunities to do so with the Israel-Palestine Peace Process, providing the justification for why an education track should be included in an agreement. It examines how the parties and international mediators can create an education track for the peace process that would enable opportunities for more ef... Read More
Unite or Divide? The Challenges of Teaching History in Societies Emerging from Violent Conflict
| Date added: | 11/03/2011 |
Author: Elizabeth A. Cole and Judy Barsalou
Institution: United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
Publication Date: 2006
Keywords:Education, Culture
Read Full Text Here: http://www.usip.org/files/resources/sr163.pdf
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History is an oft neglected aspect of stabilisation planning and yet provides important evidence of tensions (what might be harmful) and opportunities for reconciliation (what works), especially in places with contested historical and conflict narratives. Practitioners often forget that political dialogue on historical narratives and narratives emerging from transitional justice mechanisms can inform how history is taught and provide a powerful contribution to stability. This paper is useful for those interested in the role of ... Read More
Madrassa Education in Pakistan and Bangladesh
| Date added: | 11/03/2011 |
Author: Mumtaz Ahmad
Institution: Asia Pacific Centre for Security Studies
Publication Date: 2010
Keywords: Education, Pakistan, Religion
Read Full Text Here: PagesfromReligiousRadicalismandSecurityinSouthAsiach5.pdf
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This paper underscores why it is important to understand different approaches to education in stabilisation environments and why education should reflect the local religious and cultural priorities of those it is intended to benefit. The paper highlights the dangers of assuming simplistic narratives (emerging since 9/11) which portray madrassas as hotbeds of Islamic extremism. Instead it advances a more nuanced view, a... Read More
Education in Fragile States - Capturing Lessons and Identifying Good Practice
| Date added: | 11/03/2011 |
Author: Dr Pauline Rose and Dr Martin Greeley
Institution: Universityof Sussex
Publication Date: 2006
Keywords: Education, Governance, Conflict
Read Full Text Here: http://www.ids.ac.uk/go/idspublication/education-in-fragile-states-capturing-lessons-and-identifying-good-practice
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This paper challenges those who question education’s contribution to stability. It advocates that education has an increasingly important role in the broader security agenda because of its potential contribution to peace building and governance. The paper has relevance for those interested in how sectoral interventions and basic service delivery contribute to stability as well as those interested in ... Read More
Afghanistan, Education, and the Formation of the Taliban
| Date added: | 11/03/2011 |
Author: Leigh Nolan
Institution: The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Publication Date: 2006
Keywords: Education, Conflict
Read Full Text Here: http://dl.tufts.edu/ProxyServlet/?url=http://repository01.lib.tufts.edu:8080/fedora/get/tufts:UA015.012.DO.00127/bdef:TuftsPDF/getPDF&filename=tufts:UA015.012.DO.00127.pdf
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This thesis highlights how education can itself become a contested resource over which conflict is waged. It examines the struggle between religious and secular control of Afghanistan’s educational systems, and the role that this struggle has played in the rise of the Taliban. It explores the symb... Read More