[hr-education] Research on role of education in the social reconstruction of countries

Dear colleagues, 

I have been pleased to be on your Global HRE listserve for the past couple
of years, ever since I was referred to your work by Dr. Harvey Weinstein
of the Human Rights Centre at Berkeley (USA). I wanted to write to inform
you of a publication that might be of interest to pass along via the
listserve.

In the current issue of Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, (March
2007, Volume 2, No. 1) is an article written by Dr. Harvey Weinstein, Dr.
Sarah Freedman and myself, called, "School Voices: Challenges Facing
Education Systems after Identity-Based Conflicts".

We describe our research on the role of education in the social
reconstruction of countries after mass conflict. Our studies focus on the
voices of those least heard in the discourse - teachers, students,
administrators and parents. We examine schools in four societies that
experienced profound violence, ethnic cleansing and genocide during the
1990s - Croatia, the UN-administered province of Kosovo in
Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Rwanda. We question the
assumptions that underlie current practice such as a narrow focus on
emergency interventions, conflict resolution, peace education and textbook
reform. Societal repair must involve a comprehensive set of interventions
that recognizes the integrated nature of a society’s institutions.
Schools are a unique component of building a long-term future.

More information can be found at:
http://esj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/1/41 

I send this reference to you for your information and consideration. 

Kind regards, 

Holly Hughson 






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