The United Nations and higher education : peacebuilding, social justice and global cooperation for the 21st century

"In this book, Kevin Kester details how the United Nations promotion of higher education for peace and international understanding sometimes unintentionally contributes to the reproduction of conflict and violence across diverse cultures. He shows this through an in-depth examination of peace c...

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Main Author Kester, Kevin (Author)
Other Authors Cremin, Hilary (writer of foreword.), Zembylas, Michalinos (writer of afterword.)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2020]
SeriesPeace education.
Subjects
United Nations University.
Peace > Study and teaching (Higher)
Peace-building > Study and teaching (Higher)
Education > Schools > Levels > Higher.
Higher education, tertiary education.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806605736
DOI10.1108/978-1-64802-056-8
Physical Description1 online resource (240 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Hilary Cremin
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Situating peace and conflict studies
  • Chapter 3. Peace and conflict studies in higher education
  • Chapter 4. Whiteness in peace and conflict studies
  • Chapter 5. Peace and conflict studies higher education inside the United Nations
  • Chapter 6. Analytical framework
  • Chapter 7. Methodology
  • Chapter 8. The UN may be the biggest obstacle
  • Chapter 9. There's a reason that someone is getting paid to be a professor: Tensions with critical pedagogy in the peace and conflict studies classroom
  • Chapter 10. Reproducing peace? Whiteness in the curriculum and teaching
  • Chapter 11. Re-imagining peace and conflict studies education for the 21st century
  • Chapter 12. Conclusion. Afterword / Michalinos Zembylas. References. About the Author.

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