Social Media as a Space for Peace Education

M. Ayaz Naseem is Professor of Education at Concordia University, Canada. His research interests include peace education, social media, feminist theory and philosophy, post-structuralism, and citizenship education, and he has published widely on these topics.  Adeela Arshad-Ayaz is Associate Professor at Concordia University, Canada. Her published research is situated at the intersections of political economy, sustainability, citizenship, technology, and social justice.

• 1. Introduction: Peace 2.0: Social Media as an Interactive and Participatory Space for Sustainable Peace Education.- 2. A Group of Youth Learn Why and How to Disrupt Online Discourses and Social Media Propaganda Around Syrian Refugees.- 3. Finding Ways to Connect: Exploring the Potential Role of Social Media in Citizenship and Peace Education.- 4. From Head to Hand to Global Community: Social Media, Digital Diplomacy, and Post-conflict Peacebuilding in Kosovo.- 5. Educating for Sustainable Peace: Neoliberalism and the Pedagogical Potential of Social Media in Creating Conditions for Civic Engagement and Peace.- 6. Social Media for Peacebuilding: Going Beyond Slacktivism and Hashtagavism to Sustainable Engagement.- 7. Gendered Hashtactivism: Civic Engagement in Saudi Arabia.- 8. The Peace Educational Potential of Social Media: Multilogues of National Self-Regeneration in the Pakistani Blogosphere.- 9. Tavaana: e-learning and the Online Civic Sphere in Post-revolutionary Iran.- 10. Social Bots for Peace: Combating Automated Control with Automated Civic Engagement?.