1st Edition
Teaching Peace and War Pedagogy and Curricula
This comprehensive volume on teaching peace and war demonstrates that our choice of pedagogy, or the way we structure a curriculum, must be attentive to context. Pedagogical strategies that work with one class may not work in another, whether over time or across space and different types of institutions, regardless of the field of study. This book offers insight on how to address these issues. The chapters contain valuable information on specific lessons learned and creative pedagogies developed, as well as exercises and tools that facilitate delivery in specific classrooms. The authors address a wide range of challenges related to broader questions on what teachers are trying to achieve when teaching about peace and war, including reflections on the teacher’s role as a facilitator of knowledge creation.
This collection offers a valuable reference for scholars and instructors on structuring peace and war curricula in different global contexts and pedagogical strategies for a variety of classrooms.
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Peace Review.
1. Peace and War in the Classroom
Amanda E. Donahoe and Annick T.R. Wibben
Part I: Pedagogy
2. Podcasting Pedagogy for Teaching Peace and War
Kujtese Bejtullahu, Rahel Kunz and Ruxandra Stoicescu
3. Teaching Peace with Popoki
Ronni Alexander
4. Teaching Peace Education at a South African University
Vaughn M. John
5. Participatory Action Research for Peacebuilding
Sylvia Kaye and Geoff Harris
6. Teaching Counterfactuals from Hell
Anjali Kaushlesh Dayal and Paul Musgrave
7. Truth, Sources, and the Fog of War
Joakim Berndtsson and Arne F. Wackenhut
8. Conflict and Engagement in "Reacting to the Past" Pedagogy
Julie C. Tatlock and Paula Reiter
9. Group Projects as Conflict Management Pedagogy
Amanda Ellsworth Donahoe
10. Teaching Religion, Conflict, and Peace
Tanya B. Schwarz
Part II: Curricula
11. Idealism Versus Pragmatism in Teaching Peace in Pakistan
Zahid Shahab Ahmed
12. The Intrigue of Peace and War Curriculum in Africa
Kudakwashe Chirambwi
13. Decolonizing Practices for Western Educators
Michelle Rivera-Clonch
14. Teaching Peace, Not War, to U.S. History Students
Timothy Braatz
15. War and Peace in Iraqi Kurdistan’s History Curricula
Marwan Darweish and Maamoon Alsayid Mohammed
16. Transrational Peacebuilding Education to Reduce Epistemic Violence
Hilary Cremin, Josefina Echavarría and Kevin Kester
17. Teaching Tangible Peace
Patrick T. Hiller
18. Teaching the United Nations, Gender, and Critical Pedagogy
Georgina Holmes
19. Taking a Stand (or a Seat) in the Peace Studies Classroom
Kyle B. T. Lambelet
20. Circle of Praxis Pedagogy for Peace Studies
Mike Klein, Amy Finnegan and Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer
Biography
Annick T.R. Wibben is Anna Lindh Professor for Gender, Peace and Security at the Swedish Defence University in Stockholm, Sweden. Her research straddles critical security and military studies, peace studies, and feminist international relations. She has written two books, Feminist Security Studies: A Narrative Approach (2011) and Researching War: Feminist Methods, Ethics & Politics (2016).
Amanda E. Donahoe is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Centenary College of Louisiana, USA. She teaches International Relations and Comparative Politics broadly, and the intersection of identity and peace/conflict processes more specifically. Her research focuses on gender and peacebuilding exemplified by her book Peacebuilding through Women’s Community Development: Wee Women’s Work in Northern Ireland (2017).
