Innovations in peace and education praxis

This edited collection brings together a series of conceptual explorations and practical case studies to illuminate a developing innovative praxis of transdisciplinary peace and education.

Drawing on the work of the Cambridge Peace and Education Research Group as well as international scholars, this book responds to calls for transdisciplinary peace and education praxis and presents innovative examples of peace and education research practices, peace interventions in educational settings, and alternative ontologies in peace and education work. Foregrounding the concept of ‘second-order reflexivity’, the book prioritises the lived experiences and viewpoints of struggling populations regarding the worth of ‘peace’ as grounded within their contexts. Ultimately, this book showcases how the practices of peace education and research can challenge the binaries of modern and postmodern approaches and provide examples of holistic transdisciplinary approaches that embrace complexity and criticality.

Contributing new knowledge to peace and education, this volume will be of great interest to academics, post-graduate students and researchers in the field of peace education, peace studies and development studies.

The Introduction of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.taylorfrancis.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Funded by the Gates Foundation.

The Afterword of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. Funded by the Georg-Eckert-Institute.

David Tim Archer is a pracademic of peace and conflict processes. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and works in a variety of contexts and capacities globally. Tim is interested in the links between reflexivity, self-knowledge, and peace. He is currently exploring theoretical perspectives of diffraction and alternative (onto)epistemologies towards teaching peace workers and educators.

Basma Hajir received her PhD from the University of Cambridge. She holds two Master’s degrees in Education and International Development from the University of Cambridge and the University of Birmingham. Basma’s research interests lie in Education, Conflict and Peacebuilding, Higher Education, Education in Emergencies, and post-colonial and de-colonial theories.

William W. McInerney received his PhD from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. His research interests include peace education, gender justice, arts-based peacebuilding, and engaging men in violence prevention. William is also a Rotary Peace Fellow and has taught peace, arts and violence prevention programmes around the world.