Peace Education in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies

Peace Education in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies

Previous Publications Zvi Bekerman (Ed.) Cultural Education-Cultural Sustainability: Identity, Tolerance, and Multicultural Issues in Minority, Diaspora, and Indigenous education (2008) Mirror Images: Popular Culture and Education (2008) Learning in Places: The Informal Educational Reader (2006) Zvi Bekerman and Claire McGlynn (Eds.) Addressing Ethnic Conflict through Peace Education: International Perspectives (2007) Tony Gallagher Education in Divided Societies (2004) Michalinos Zembylas The Politics of Trauma in Education (2008) Five Pedagogies, A Thousand Possibilities: Struggling for Hope and Transformation in Education (2007) Teaching with Emotion: A Postmodern Enactment (2005)

Peace Education in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies Comparative Perspectives Edited by Claire McGlynn, Michalinos Zembylas, Zvi Bekerman, and Tony Gallagher

peace education in conflict and post-conflict societies Copyright Claire McGlynn, Michalinos Zembylas, Zvi Bekerman, and Tony Gallagher, 2009. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2009 978-0-230-60842-9 All rights reserved. First published in 2009 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN in the United States a division of St. Martin s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave and Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-37536-3 ISBN 978-0-230-62042-1(eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230620421 Peace education in conflict and post-conflict societies : comparative perspectives / edited by Claire McGlynn... [et al.]. p. cm. Includes index. 1. Peace Study and teaching. 2. Conflict management. 3. Postwar reconstruction. I. McGlynn, Claire. JZ5534.P4273 2009 303.6'6 dc22 2008034768 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Scribe Inc. First edition: April 2009 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Claire McGlynn Part I Approaches to Peace Education: Comparative Lessons 5 Tony Gallagher 1 Negotiating Cultural Difference in Divided Societies: An Analysis of Approaches to Integrated Education in Northern Ireland 9 Claire McGlynn 2 Grassroots Voices of Hope: Educators and Students Perspectives on Educating for Peace in Post-conflict Burundi 27 Elavie Ndura-Ouedraogo 3 The Emergence of Human Rights Education amid Ethnic Conflict in the Dominican Republic 43 Monisha Bajaj and Cheila Valera Acosta 4 From Conflict Society to Learning Society: Lessons from the Peace Process in Northern Ireland 59 Paul Nolan 5 Peace, Reconciliation, and Justice: Delivering the Miracle in Post-apartheid Education 75 Pam Christie

vi Contents Part II Peace Education and Contact: Introduction 89 Zvi Bekerman 6 Social Context and Contact Hypothesis: Perceptions and Experiences of a Contact Program for Ten- to Eleven-yearold Children in the Republic of Macedonia 93 Ana Tomovska 7 Smoking Doesn t Kill; It Unites! : Cultural Meanings and Practices of Mixing at the Gymnasium Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina 109 Azra Hromadzic 8 The Cultural Psychology of American-based Coexistence Programs for Israeli and Palestinian Youth 127 Phillip L. Hammack 9 Toward the Development of a Theoretical Framework for Peace Education Using the Contact Hypothesis and Multiculturalism 145 Ulrike Niens 10 Promoting Reconciliation through Community Relations Work: A Comparison among Young People in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Vukovar, Croatia 161 Ankica Kosic and Jessica Senehi Part III Curriculum and Pedagogy: Introduction 179 Michalinos Zembylas 11 Inventing Spaces for Critical Emotional Praxis: The Pedagogical Challenges of Reconciliation and Peace 183 Michalinos Zembylas 12 Arab and Jewish Students Participatory Action Research at the University of Haifa: A Model for Peace Education 199 Tamar Zelniker, Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz, Hilla Peretz, Faisal Azaiza, and Ruth Sharabany 13 Deliberative History Classes for a Post-conflict Society: Theoretical Development and Practical Implication through International Education in United World College in Bosnia and Herzegovina 215 Pilvi Torsti and Sirkka Ahonen

Contents vii 14 Yeah, It Is Important to Know Arabic I Just Don t Like Learning It : Can Jews Become Bilingual in the Palestinian-Jewish Integrated Bilingual Schools? 231 Zvi Bekerman 15 Teacher Preparation for Peace Education in South Africa and the United States: Maintaining Commitment, Courage, and Compassion 247 Candice C. Carter and Saloshna Vandeyar Contributors 263 Index 271

Acknowledgments We want to express our deep gratitude to the World Council of Comparative Education Societies, which provided the venue in its Sarajevo Conference (September 2007) for presenting a number of symposia titled Transition, Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies. These symposia constituted the initiation of this writing project. We are grateful to Palgrave Macmillan for undertaking this project and particularly to our editor, Julia Cohen, for providing support throughout all the stages of this effort. Many thanks are also offered to our respective institutions for their continuing support and encouragement by providing us with the space to conduct our research and writing: the School of Education at Queen s University Belfast, the Open University of Cyprus, the Melton Centre for Jewish Education, and the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.