ABSTRACT
In post-conflict contexts human rights education does in fact make good sense. The evidence for this is apparent in all of our cases: local educators have deemed education about human rights to be central to peacebuilding. They chose human rights education because they were aware that it would bring immediate, desirable, and necessary changes to the people they were working with in places where resources are scarce. All the educators in this study held firm to the belief that an educated population, particularly one educated in human rights, can not only better meet its needs, but also over time, influence national trends and processes to its benefit. In this conclusion we seek to identify those elements and forms of education that the educators, and we the authors, found to be most beneficial to long-term political and economic change and peaceful relations in the societies in question. All of this amounts to the real promise of human rights education in peacebuilding situations.
