Critical Issues in Peace and Education

Peter Pericles Trifonas is a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto. Bryan Wright is a PhD Candidate in Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning with a specialization in the Philosophy of Peace Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Program in Conflict Resolution at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.

• Introduction Peter Pericles Trifonas and Bryan Wright 1. Educational Reform and the Project of Militarization Brian W. Lagotte and Michael W. Apple 2. Encountering Peace: The Politics of Participation When Educating for Co-Existence Maria Hantzopoulos 3. A Grassroots Peace Education Innovation in a Co-operative Jewish-Palestinian Village in Israel: Mahatma Gandhi’s Concept of "Satyagraha" in Action Grace Feuerverger 4. Learning Human Rights Praxis Magnus Haavelsrud 5. On Human Rights, Philosophy, and Education: The Ethics of Difference After Deconstruction Peter Pericles Trifonas 6. Education for ‘Peace’ in Urban Canadian Schools: Gender, Culture, Conflict, and Opportunities to Learn Kathy Bickmore 7. Improvisation, Violence and Peace Education Ilan Gur-Ze’ev 8. Deconstructing the Other: Opening Peace Bryan Wright 9. The (Im)possibility of Trying for Reconciliation and Peace: The Significance of Conflict, Limits, and Exclusions in Transitional Democracy Mario Di Paolantonio