ABSTRACT
This book uses a series of case studies to examine the roles played by universities during situations of conflict, peacebuilding and resistance.
While a body of work dealing with the role of education in conflict does exist, this is almost entirely concerned with compulsory education and schooling. This book, in contrast, highlights and promotes the importance of higher education, and universities in particular, to situations of conflict, peacebuilding and resistance. Using case studies from Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, this volume considers institutional responses, academic responses and student responses, illustrating these in chapters written by those who have had direct experience of these issues. Looking at a university’s tripartite functions (of research, teaching and service) in relation to the different phases or stages of conflict (pre conflict, violence, post conflict and peacebuilding), it draws together some of the key contributions a university might make to situations of instability, resistance and recovery. The book is organised in five sections that deal with conceptual issues, institutional responses, academic-led or discipline-specific responses, teaching or curriculum-led responses and student involvement. Aimed at those working in universities or concerned with conflict recovery and peacebuilding it highlights ways in which universities can be a valuable, if currently neglected, resource.
This book will be of much interest to students of peace studies, conflict resolution, education studies and IR in general.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 111|52 pages
Conceptual issues
part 632|41 pages
Institutional responses to conflict or occupation
chapter 5|12 pages
Protests, prisoners and Palestinian studies
chapter 6|14 pages
Should universities actively help build peace?
part 1053|71 pages
Academic-led responses, working through specific disciplines with governments and their local communities
chapter 7|13 pages
Clinical human rights education in an occupied territory
chapter 8|16 pages
Bridging the ‘International-Local Gap’ in peacebuilding through academic cooperation
chapter 9|13 pages
Peacebuilding through education
chapter 11|13 pages
Reflections on education as a political practice
part 1774|42 pages
Student-led responses of protest, resistance and peacebuilding
chapter 12|12 pages
Student responses to the absence of a functional university system
chapter 13|14 pages
Disrupting coloniality
part 2195|16 pages
Implications for the future