Bloomsbury Academic Educating for Peace and Human Rights: An Introduction (Peace and Human Rights Education)

Over the past five decades, both peace education and human rights education have emerged distinctly and separately as global fields of scholarship and practice. Promoted through multiple efforts (the United Nations, civil society, grassroots educators), both of these fields consider content, processes, and educational structures that seek to dismantle various forms of violence, as well as move towards cultures of peace, justice and human rights. Educating for Peace and Human Rights Education introduces students and educators to the challenges and possibilities of implementing peace and human rights education in diverse global sites. The book untangles the core concepts that define both fields, unpacking their histories and conceptual foundations, and presents models and key research findings to help consider their intersections, convergences, and divergences. Including an annotated bibliography, the book sets forth a comprehensive research agenda, allowing emerging and seasoned scholars the opportunity to situate their research in conversation with the global fields of peace and human rights education. Review This book is a timely and much-needed addition to scholarly work in both PE and HRE, as the authors highlight how the overlaps between PE and HRE can emerge as fertile ground for new thinking and action in the global fight for social justice. Accessible and relevant to beginners and seasoned human rights and peace educators alike, the authors demonstrate their conceptual expertise in these fields through the depth and breadth of their analysis. --International Journal of Human Rights Education[T]his book is an important, well-written, and even essential text for new and seasoned PE and HRE scholars, practitioners, and activists. Its global scope, accessible approach, and breadth of content make this text primed for use in university classrooms, grassroot campaigns for justice, and in the hands of everyday peacebuilders and human rights advocates around the world. --Educational ReviewEducating for Peace and Human Rights: An Introduction builds on previous texts by the two authors, but it truly shines as a way of introducing students new to these areas of education. Of particular importance is the care that Bajaj and Hantzopoulos take both to present the historical emergence of peace education and human rights education and to build on discussions of these historical foundations, with an emphasis on critical and decolonial elements of these fields. --Global Campaign for Peace Education About the Author Maria Hantzopoulos is Associate Professor and Chair of the Education Department at Vassar College, USA. She is co-editor of Peace Education (Bloomsbury, 2016) and author of Restoring Dignity in Public Schools: Human Rights Education in Action (2016). Monisha Bajaj is Professor of International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco, USA and Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. She is the author of Schooling for Social Change: The Rise and Impact of Human Rights Education in India (Bloomsbury 2012).