1st Edition
Universities and Conflict The Role of Higher Education in Peacebuilding and Resistance
Introduction, Juliet Millican
PART I: Conceptual Issues
1. The social role and responsibility of a university in different social and political contexts, Juliet Millican
2. The stages of violent conflict: towards a framework for constructive intervention?, Stephen Ryan
3. A review of the literature on universities and conflict, Samson Milton
PART II: Institutional Responses to Conflict or Occupation
4. Queen’s University Belfast in times of in violence and peace, John Brewer
5. What Can a University Do?: Reflections on challenging the Israeli military occupation’s criminalization of education and the mass detentions of Palestinian students at Birzeit University, Penny Johnson
6. Reflections on a programme for a peaceful city at the University of Bradford, Lisa Cumming, with Amhira Khatun and Graeme Chesters
PART III: Academic-led responses, working through specific disciplines with governments and their local communities
7. Providing legal aid to disadvantaged communities in an Occupied Territory: attempting to bridge the human rights standards gap, Munir Nuseibar
8. Bridging the ‘International-Local Gap’ in peacebuilding through academic cooperation: The Southeast European Regional Master’s Program in Peace Studies, Nemanja Dzuverovic and Damir Kapidzic
9. Using education to build peace: the Northern Ireland experience of educators working with a marginalized and disenfranchised community, John Bell, Maire Braniff and Jonny Byrne
10. Social and moral responsibilities of foreign language teachers in post conflict, fragile and fragmented Bosnia and Herzegovina, Larisa Kasumagić Kafedžić
11. Reflections on the role of research at the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University: Education as a Political Practice: Women Studies as a vehicle for Change, Eileen Kuttab
PART IV: Student-led responses of protest, resistance and peacebuildng
12. Student responses to the absence of a functional university system: alternative pathways to higher education in Myanmar, Cecile Medial and Amy Doffegnies
13. Disrupting Coloniality, Student-led Resistance to the Oppressive Status Quo in South Africa, Savo Heleta, Awethu Fatyela and Thanduxolo Nkala
14. Reflections on The University as a Microcosm of the State in Burma/Myanmar, Rosalie Metro
PART V: Implications for the Future
15. Working with managers, academics and students in peacebuilding and resistance, Francesca Burke and Juliet Millican
Biography
Juliet Millican is Deputy Director of the Community University Partnership programme at the University of Brighton, UK.
