Education Policy and Power-Sharing in Post-Conflict Societies

Giuditta Fontana is Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is also Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Divided Societies at King’s College London, UK, and at the Centre for Conflict Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Consociation and Education policy in Deeply Divided Societies.- 3 Compulsory Education in Lebanon, Northern Ireland and Macedonia.- 4 Reforming History Education.- 5 Formulating Citizenship Education.- 6 Languages of Instruction.- 7 Intergroup Contact and Separation in Schools.- Conclusion: Separate to Unite.