Education, Conflict and Social Cohesion

Download or read book Education, Conflict and Social Cohesion written by International Bureau of Education and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2004 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains a number of paper which explore educational issues in societies emerging from violent conflict situations, including Bosnia, Guatemala, Lebanon, Northern Ireland and Rwanda. The papers examine the role of education in contributing to reconciliation and peacebuilding, and the challenges in curriculum policy including the determination of language policies in multilingual and multicultural societies, the teaching of national history, and the development of a sense of common citizenship and share identity.