Education, Conflict and Development (Oxford Studies in Comparative Education)

Under various names - education and conflict, education and fragility, education and insecurity, etc. - the understanding of linkages between education and violent conflict has emerged as an important and pressing area of inquiry. Work and research by practitioners and scholars has clearly pointed to the negative potential of education to contribute to and entrench violent conflict. This work has highlighted the struggle for education during and following periods of instability and demonstrated the degree to which communities affected by conflict prioritize educational opportunities. It has also offered powerful normative arguments for the importance of quality education for peacebuilding, reconciliation, post-conflict reconstruction and development. In many instances, however, these important insights are derived less from rigorous research and scholarship in the social sciences than from the delivery and evaluation of educational programming in situations affected by conflict. This volume, therefore, seeks to broaden enquiry into education and conflict by exploring, through conceptual and empirical work, its linkages to broader theories and practices of development and peacebuilding. The volume begins with a conceptual and theoretical section, followed by a series of international case studies, before closing with three chapters focused on the case of Northern Uganda. Contributors present a diverse set of studies which together deepen understandings of the ways that education functions in various situations affected by conflict and the ways in which it might best be mobilized to contribute towards peacebuilding and development.
CONTENTS
PART 1: Concepts, Relationships and Assumptions
Colin Brock. Education and Conflict: a fundamental relationship
Stephanie E.L. Bengtsson. Fragile States, Fragile Concepts: a critical reflection on the terminology of fragility in the field of education in emergencies
Jeremy Rappleye. Different Presumptions about Progress, Divergent Prescriptions for Peace: connections between conflict, 'development' and education in Nepal
PART 2: Understanding Relationships: country case studies
Christine Pagen. Sources of Learning about Human Rights and Democracy in Southern Sudan
Mitsuko Matsumoto. Expectations and Realities of Education in Post-conflict Sierra Leone: a reflection of society or a driver for peacebuilding?
Tomoe Otsuki. A Point of Connection through Transnational History Textbooks? An Examination of History that Opens Future, the Joint History Textbook Initiative of China, Japan and South Korea
PART 3: Education, Conflict and Development in Northern Uganda
Maureen Murphy, Lindsay Stark, Michael Wessells, Neil Boothby & Alastair Ager. Fortifying Barriers: sexual violence as an obstacle to girls' school participation in Northern Uganda
Betty Akullu Ezati, Cornelius Ssempala & Peter Ssenkusu. Teachers' Perceptions and the Effects of Young People's War Experiences on Teaching and Learning in Northern Uganda
Jeremy Cunningham. Schools and Peacebuilding in Northern Uganda: young people's perspectives