Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book analyzes how economic pressures generated by neoliberalism, mixed with foreign policy adventures driven by neoconservatives, have increasingly affected education reform in disturbing ways. It maintains that the core and fundamental notion of dialogue in peace education and conflict resolution programs is often a taken-for-granted method. The book reflects on how education can contribute to the potential of the human being for becoming a protector of human rights. It presents a reading of the ethics of deconstruction and its incursion into the logic of the cosmopolitical that broaches the question of human rights, peace, and education. It restricts itself to the aim of offering a short reflection on the relations between concepts: peace, violence, and improvisation. It underscores how the very contestation unleashed by the betrayed hopes of the Trial provides the public impetus for bringing the unsettled past wrongs before the law.