Maria Hantzopoulos is Associate Professor and Chair of the Education Department at Vassar College, USA. She is co-editor of Peace Education (Bloomsbury, 2016) and author of Restoring Dignity in Public Schools: Human Rights Education in Action (2016). Monisha Bajaj is Professor of International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco, USA and Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. She is the author of Schooling for Social Change: The Rise and Impact of Human Rights Education in India (Bloomsbury 2012).

• Introduction1. Peace Education: The Foundations and Future Directions of a Field2. Peace Education in Practice: Examples from the United States3. Human Rights Education: Foundations, Frameworks & Future Directions4. Human Rights Education in Practice: Examples from South Asia5. Bridging the Fields: Conceptualizing Dignity & Transformative Agency in Peace & Human Rights Education6. Concluding Thoughts and the Way AheadAppendix A: Annotated List of Further Reading in Peace and Human Rights EducationIndex

This book is a timely and much-needed addition to scholarly work in both PE and HRE, as the authors highlight how the overlaps between PE and HRE can emerge as fertile ground for new thinking and action in the global fight for social justice. Accessible and relevant to beginners and seasoned human rights and peace educators alike, the authors demonstrate their conceptual expertise in these fields through the depth and breadth of their analysis.