Integrated Education In Conflicted Societies

"This collection focuses on the developing field of integrated education in conflicted societies, where children who would normally be educated apart are deliberately educated together. A variety of accounts from different geographical and socio-political sites - Catholic and Protestant in Northern Ireland, Palestinian and Jewish in Israel, and Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot in Cyprus, in addition to examples from Macedonia, Bosnia, and Croatia - are brought together, discussed and analyzed. In all of these accounts integrated education has been difficult to initiate, complex to sustain, and has aroused the suspicion of the local historically divided communities; nonetheless, those involved believe it to be essential in contributing to the healing of the wounds that afflict their societies, easing the path towards integration"-- "This book is the first output of a new international network of academics, practitioners and non-governmental organizations, the Integrated Peace Education: Global Network for Practice and Research, which holds its inaugural conference in Belfast in March 2012 to coincide with the 30th anniversary of integrated education in Northern Ireland. The editors bring to bear multiple theoretical and practical frameworks on the developing field of integrated education in conflicted societies, where children who are more normally educated apart are deliberately educated together. The ideas of those working in integrated education initiatives in a range of international conflict contexts are presented together in this book. It considers the challenges of establishing and delivering integrated education from a variety of perspectives and it is richly illustrated with examples of educational practice in countries affected by conflict"--