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Current Issue
Volume 17.1 (2023)
Special Issue on Weaving Together Intercultural Peace Learning
Special Issue Co-Editors: Janet C. Gerson and Anita Yudkin
Contacto intergrupal y repercepción como mediadores de procesos de paz intercultural: programa de encuentros de educación para la paz, by Leonardo González Torres
Nuevas Realidades, Nuevas Prácticas: Esbozo de un Espacio Socio-Reflexivo en la Formación en Psicología Social en Venezuela, by José Félix Salazar Cruces
Pluriversal and Relational Pedagogies for Peace(s), by Daniela Lehner
Local Worldmaking Through Little Dragons for a Better World: A Case Study of a Intercultural Community Building Project, by Vanessa Meng
Community Dreamwork as Intercultural Peacelearning, by HyoYoung Minna Kim and Stephanie Marie Knox Steiner
Supporting Local Actors in Times of Conflict: The Civil Peace Service and Its Various Actors, by Samantha Ruppel, Bernd Rieche, T. Debey Sayndee, Christoph Schlimpert, María Requena López, and Daniela Pastoors
Volume 16, Number 2 (2022)
By Dale T. Snauwaert and Betty A. Reardon
By Laura Finley and Luigi Esposito
By Gasasira Gasana John
By Matthew Hazelton
By Jessica Wegert
Volume 16, Number 1, 2022
Aspiring to Transformation: Solidarity and Prefiguration in an Educational Social Movement Organization By Karen Ross
Creating and Developing Capacities for National Healing and Peace Building in Zimbabwe Through ‘Difficult History’ By Gilbert Tarugarira and Mbusi Moyo
Death Penalty as State Crime: Examining the Physical and Mental Health Concerns with Capital Punishment in the U.S. By Laura Finley
Why Peace and Justice Education is Important in Places of Worship: An Introduction and Curriculum Proposal to Peace and Justice Education in Companion to the Sermon on the Mount By George M. Benson
Aesthetic Deprivation in Perpetual Conflict By Saeed Owais Mushtaq and Mehak Majeed
Book Reviews
Review of Magnus Haavelsrud, Education in Developments. Volume 3 (Oslo: Arena, 2020) By Howard Richards
Nicki Gerstner and Jungyoon Shin
Volume 15 Number 1, 2021
People Over Profit: Rejecting Corporate Egoism By Chitranjan Greer-Travis
Gender and Peace Education in Afghanistan By Hafiza Yazdani & Heather Devere
Democratic Consumption By Sue L. T. McGregor
Book Reviews
By Jocelyn Wright
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Volume 14 Number 2, 2020
By Laura Finley and Luigi Esposito
History of Formal Education and Influence of Politics in Afghanistan
By Hafiza Yazdani
By Sue L. T. McGregor
Book Reviews
By Jeongmin Moon and Euna Lim
By Mary Abura
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Volume 14 Number 1, 2020
Peace Education in Afghanistan: A Comparative Study of Conflict and Post-Conflict School Textbooks
By Hafiza Yazdani
By Maggie O’Neil
Transforming Ourselves First. The Need of a Paradigm Shift in Peace Research and Peace Education
By Francesco Pistolato
The Criminology and Peacemaking Possibilities of The Purge Film and TV Series
By Laura Finley
Some Reflections on Elicitive Approaches to Peace Studies in Higher Education
By Shawn Bryant  and Noah B. Taylor
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Volume 13 Number 2, 2019
“In loving memory of Sam Ling Gibson, who would never accept weak excuses for ignorance”
By Nena MoÄnik
Towards an Agreement on Learning Outcomes For Peace Education
By Moritz Bilagher
Sexual Misconduct, Callout Culture and the Possibility of Redemption
By Laura Finley and Matthew Johnson
Why Civil Resistance Fails: The Saffron Uprising in Myanmar, 2007
By Adhik Badal
Peace Education: International Perspectives. Capabilities and Conflict: An Examination of Colombia’s Educational Revolution and its Role in Peacebuilding
By Jack Ruane
Book Reviews
By Loughlin Sweeney
By William W. McInerney
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Volume 13 Number 1, 2019
Teacher Training and Perceptions of Self Efficacy in Violence Prevention Approaches
By Kristie Jo Redfering and Alexia Georgakopoulos
Role of Early Warning Systems in Conflict Prevention in Africa: A Framework
By Peterlinus Ouma Odote and Maria Nzomo
By Daniel Nganga
Book Reviews and Book Review Essays
Editors note: These reviews are a part of a series co-published by the Global Campaign for Peace Education toward promoting peace education scholarship. These reviews are of Information Age Publishing’s Peace Education series. Established in 2006 by Founding Editors Ian Harris and Edward Brantmeier, IAP’s peace education series offers diverse perspectives on peace education theory, research, curriculum development and practice. It is the only series focused on peace education offered by any major publisher. Click here to learn more about this important series.
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By Maxwell Adjei
By Basma Hajir
Volume 12 Number 2, 2018
(Un)civil War: The Current Political Discourse in America
By Laura Finley, Luigi Esposito and Matthew Johnson
By Unmana Sarangi
Book Reviews and Book Review Essays
Editors note: These reviews are a part of a series co-published by the Global Campaign for Peace Education toward promoting peace education scholarship. These reviews are of Information Age Publishing’s Peace Education series. Established in 2006 by Founding Editors Ian Harris and Edward Brantmeier, IAP’s peace education series offers diverse perspectives on peace education theory, research, curriculum development and practice. It is the only series focused on peace education offered by any major publisher. Click here to learn more about this important series.
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By Janet Gerson
The Dialogical Turn: A Review Essay of Peacebuilding Through Dialogue: Education, Hu-man Transformation, and Conflict Resolution Edited by Peter N. Stearns
By Dale T. Snauwaert
Truth commissions: memory, power, and legitimacy, by Onur Bakiner
By Adhik Badal
Review of: Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci.
By Ayman Alsadawi
Peace Education: International Perspectives. Edited by Monisha Bajaj and Maria Hantzopoulos
By Nomisha Kurian
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Volume 12 Number 1, 2018
By Kevin Kester
By Sam L. Gibson
Game Theory and Peace Research: Professor Anatol Rapoport’s Contributions
By Erika Simpson
Exploring Relationships for Positive Peace
By Heather Devere
By Daniela Pastoors
Book Reviews
Editors note: These reviews are a part of a series co-published by the Global Campaign for Peace Education toward promoting peace education scholarship. These reviews are of Information Age Publishing’s Peace Education series. Established in 2006 by Founding Editors Ian Harris and Edward Brantmeier, IAP’s peace education series offers diverse perspectives on peace education theory, research, curriculum development and practice. It is the only series focused on peace education offered by any major publisher. Click here to learn more about this important series.
A Pedagogy of Faith: The Theological Vision of Paulo Freire by Irwin Leopando,
Reviewed by Hogai Aryoubi
Reviewed by Line Kuppens
Reviewed by Kazuyo Yamane
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Volume 11 Number 2, 2017
Special Issue: Â Peace Building in Post-Conflict Contexts
Special Issue Editors
Janet Gerson, International Institute on Peace Education
Anita Yudkin, University of Puerto Rico
By Janet Gerson and Anita Yudkin
Colombia Between Neoliberal Peace and Democratic Peace
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos
By Anaida Pascual Morán
By Alicia Cabezudo
“We Say, When We’ve Reached One We’ve Reached the World…but What if We Missed One?”
By Jill Strauss and Michelle Black
Youth Leaders and the Arts: From Conflict to Strategic Community Building
By Beth Fisher-Yoshida, Joan Lopez, and Aldo Civico
LÃderes Juveniles y las Artes: Del Conflicto a la Construccian Estratagica de Comunidades
By Beth Fisher-Yoshida, Joan Lopez, and Aldo Civico
Integrated Approach to Human Rights in a Post Conflict Niger Delta
By Imoh Colins Edozie
Espacios de Revisian: Literatura Argentina y Pedagogia Hacia la Pazi
By Andrea Arce-Trigatti and Florencia Beatriz Santucho
The Need for Peace Education for University Students in Lebanon
By Ghada Chehimi and Nadine Joudi
Book Reviews
Editors note: These reviews are a part of a series co-published by the Global Campaign for Peace Education toward promoting peace education scholarship. These reviews are of Information Age Publishing’s Peace Education series. Established in 2006 by Founding Editors Ian Harris and Edward Brantmeier, IAP’s peace education series offers diverse perspectives on peace education theory, research, curriculum development and practice. It is the only series focused on peace education offered by any major publisher. Click here to learn more about this important series.
A global security system: an alternative to war. 2016 edition
Reviewed by Patricia M. Mische
Pedagogy, Politics and Philosophy of Peace: Interrogating Peace and Peacemaking
Reviewed by Tim Archer
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Volume 11 Number 1, 2017
Examining the Depiction of Domestic Violence in Popular Adult Fiction: A Review of Six Novels
By Laura L. Finley
Book Reviews
Editors note: These reviews are a part of a series co-published by the Global Campaign for Peace Education toward promoting peace education scholarship. These reviews are of Information Age Publishing’s Peace Education series. Established in 2006 by Founding Editors Ian Harris and Edward Brantmeier, IAP’s peace education series offers diverse perspectives on peace education theory, research, curriculum development and practice. It is the only series focused on peace education offered by any major publisher. Click here to learn more about this important series.
Understanding peace cultures, edited by Rebecca L. Oxford,
Reviewed by Sandra L. Candel
Encyclopedia of peace education, edited by Monisha Bajaj,
Reviewed by Alexander Cromwell
Peace jobs: a student’s guide to starting a career working for peace by David J. Smith
Reviewed by Janet Gray
Reviewed by Mike Klein
Volume 10 Number 1, 2016
By Tony Jenkins
By Sue L. T. McGregor
Book Reviews
Editors note: These reviews are a part of a series co-published by the Global Campaign for Peace Education toward promoting peace education scholarship. These reviews are of Information Age Publishing’s Peace Education series. Established in 2006 by Founding Editors Ian Harris and Edward Brantmeier, IAP’s peace education series offers diverse perspectives on peace education theory, research, curriculum development and practice. It is the only series focused on peace education offered by any major publisher. Click here to learn more about this important series.
The language of peace, communicating to create harmony, edited by Rebecca L. Oxford.
Reviewed by Mumbua Simon
Building a peaceful society: creative integration of peace education,by Laura L. Finley.
Reviewed by Christie Billups
Peace education from the grassroots, edited by Ian M. Harris.
Reviewed by Mallory Servais
Volume 9 Number 2, 2015
Inculcating Peaceability Let us make what peace is left for us to make
By Jane M. Schreck
The Political and Structural Exclusion of Student Voice in the School Closure Process
By Glenda Toneff-Cotner
Master or Steward Degree Designations: Implications for Cultures of Peace
By Sue L. T. McGregor
Volume 9 Number 1, 2015
Transformative Praxis at Work in Loreto Day School Sealdah: A Remarkable Fostering of Positive Peace
By Christopher Hrynkow and David Creamer
The Critical Difference of Peace Education
By Katerina Standish
Volume 8 Number 2, 2014
The Satyagraha of John Brown
By Timothy Braatz
Buddhism and Non-Violent World: Examining a Buddhist Contribution to Promoting the Principle of Non-Violence and a Culture of Peace
By Juichiro Tanabe
Prospective Philosophical Foundations of Peace Education
By Sue McGregor
Peace Education in Early Childhood Education
By Stacey M. Alfonso
Citizenship Preferences of Turkish Parents Regarding Their Children1
By Zafer Kuş, Durdane Öztürk, and Özlem Elvan
Volume 8, Number 1, 2014
Special Issue: Proceedings of the International Institute on Peace Education 2013, Catedra UNESCO de Educacian para la Paz / UNESCO Chair for Peace Education
Universidad de Puerto Rico / University of Puerto Rico. Special Issue Editors: Anita Yudkin, Anaida Pascual Morán, Liliana Cotto Morales, and Fuad Al-Daraweesh.
Educación en y para los Derechos Humanos y la Paz: Valores, Principios y Prácticas Pedagágicas Medulares
by Anaida Pascual Moran
Profesionalizando a Láderes Comunitarios en el Diplomado Nacional en Cultura de Paz
By Nathalie Carrillo Gómez and Walter Trejo Urquiola
Interculturalidad y educaciòn: exploraciòn de una paidea para el Sur
El proyecto: Interculturalidad y culturas de paz con justicia
By Liliana Cotto Morales
Diseño, AplicaciÃn y EvaluaciÃn del Modelo de IntervenciÃn Tutorial en la UAEMEX desde la Perspectiva de la EducaciÃn para la Paz
By Martha Estela Gómez Collado
Negotiating Competing Ethical Systems in Schools: Restorative Practices for Transforming Violent School Communities
By Erin Dunlevy
On The ˜Dia-Tekhna Dialogue Through Art’ Methodology
By Alex Carrascosa
Reflections on IIPE 2013: Exploring a Possible World Free from Violence
By Susan Gelber Cannon
Homology: A Human Rights Poem
by Anna Verhoye
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Volume 7, Number 2, 2013
Peace In Every Relationship: Building an Interdisciplinary, Holistic Domestic Violence Program on College Campuses
By Laura Finley
Democratizing Global Justice: The World Tribunal on Iraq
By Janet Gerson
Book Review
Candice C. Carter (ed.) Conflict Resolution and Peace Education Transformations across Disciplines, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-230-62063-6. 237pp.
By Oluwaseun Bamidele
Volume 7, Number 1, 2013
Human Responsibility Movement Initiatives: A Comparative Analysis
By Sue L.T. McGregor
Reflections on Kenneth E. Boulding’s The Image: Glimpsing the Roots of Peace Education Pedagogy
By Tony Jenkins
Human Rights and Human Rights Education: Beyond the Conventional Approach
By Fuad Al-Daraweesh
War: The Ultimate Crime Against Humanity
Review of Gwynne Dyer, War: the Lethal Custom (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers,
2005). Â By Sam R. Snyder
Volume 6, Number 2, 2012
Editorial Essay — The Importance of Philosophy for Education in a Democratic Society
By Dale T. Snauwaert
Vowing to End Injustice: A Buddhist Social Movement’s Narrative Construction of Social Change
By Jeremy A. Rinker
Alternative Dispute Resolution and Niyama, The Second Limb of Yoga Sutra
By Carmen M. Cusack
Book Reviews
A review of The End of War by John Horgan (San Francisco: McSweeney Books, 2012)
By Sam R. Snyder
A review of No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and The Coming Global Turn by Charles A. Kupchan. A Council on Foreign Relations Book. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)
By Sam R. Snyder
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Volume 6, Number 1, 2012
Civic Education and Global Citizenship: A Deweyan Perspective
by Moses Chikwe
The Applicability of the Strategic Killing Model to the Case of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire
by Shavkat Kasymov
Designing Teacher Education Programs for Human Rights
by Joshua C. Francis
Culture as the Cause of Conflict. A Case study in west Pokot District, Kenya
by Daniel Nganga
Outsourcing War and Peace
A review of Laura A. Dickinson, Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011).
by Sam R. Snyder
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Volume 5, Number 3, 2011Â
Special Issue: Papers from the International Institute on Peace Education 2010, Cartagena, Colombia. Special Issue Editor: Anita Yudkin-Suliveres, Professor and UNESCO Chair for Peace Education at the University of Puerto Rico
Youth as Actors in Peace and Human Rights Education
By Marloes van Houten and Vera Santner
Unidades MÃviles como estrategia para prevenir la violencia y educar para la paz: la experiencia de Antioquia, Colombia
By Juan Carlos Rivillas and Olga Espinosa Henao
Participatory Artistic Quiltmaking for Peacebuilding and Peace Education: Reflections on a Workshop in the International Institute for Peace Education 2010 and on a Research Study
By Roselynn Verwoord
The Pen is Mightier than the Sword
By Andrew Moss
Homage to Gandhi
By Andrew Moss
Maria Montessori: Education for Peace
By Barbara Thayer-Bacon
Contextualizing Peace in Islamic Traditions: Challenging Cultural Hegemony
By Candice Marie Nasir
A Cultural Approach to Peace Education
By Carl Templin and Jing Sun
Consumption in Environmental Education: Developing curriculum that Addresses Cradle to Cradle Principles
By Helen Kopnina
Applying The New Ecological Paradigm Scale in the Case of Environmental Education: Qualitative Analysis of the Ecological Worldview of Dutch Children
By Helen Kopnina
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Volume 5, Number 2, 2011
On Wrestling with Alienation and Producing More Progressive Mental Conceptions that Remake our World: Doing Democracy
By Adam Renner, Nancye E. McCrary, and Doug Selwyn
Fostering Social, Emotional, Ethical, Civic and Academic Learning (SEECAL) Through Constructive Controversy: What are the Implications for the Professional Development of High School Teachers?
by Deborah Donahue-Keegan
Perceptions of Citizenship in Preservice Elementary Social Studies Education
by Hilary Harms Logan
The Dialogic Classroom As Pedagogy: Teaching the Civic Mission of Schools
by Andrea M. Hyde
Emotion, Reflection, and Activism: Educating for Peace in and for Democracy
by Eric C. Sheffield, Yolanda Medina, and Jeffrey Cornelius-White
The Search for Balance: Understanding and Implementing Yoga, Peace, and Democratic Education
by Joy L. Wiggins
Teacher Development as Deliberative Democratic Practice: A Precursor to Educating for Democratic Citizenship
by Diane R.Wood, Elizabeth K. DeMulder, and Stacia M. Stribling.
Volume 5, Number 1, 2011
Reflective Pedagogy, Cosmopolitanism, and Critical Peace Education for Political Efficacy: A Discussion of Betty A. Reardon’s Assessment of the Field by Betty A. Reardon and Dale T. Snauwaert
Second Installment of the Special Issue: Skills, Values, and Beliefs for Today’s Democratic Citizenship Learning to Trust Our Teachers by Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon and Scott Ellison
Democratic Citizenship, Critical Multiculturalism, and the Case of Muslims Since September 11 by Liz Jackson
Habitat for Humanity and the Support of Civic Participation by Todd Junkins and Darcia Narvaez
Society’s Response to Environmental Challenges: Citizenship and the Role of Knowledge by Cecilia Lundholm
Volume 4, Number 1, 2010
Special Issue: Skills, Values, and Beliefs for Today’s Democratic Citizenship: Psychological Competencies–Florian Feucht (Special Issue Editor)
Lori Olafson: “Good†Americans and “Bad†Americans: Personal Epistemology, Moral Reasoning, and Citizenship.
Claudia Ruitenberg: Conflict, Affect and the Political: On Disagreement as Democratic Capacity.
Michael Weinstock: Epistemic Understanding and Sound Reasoning Skills that Underlie Effective Democratic Engagement.
Gregory Schraw, Lori Olafson, Michelle Vander Veldt, & Jennifer Ponder: Teachers’ Epistemological Stances and Citizenship Education.
Lisa Bendixen(Discussant): Argumentation, Anger, and Action: Citizenship Education In and Out of the Classroom.
Dale Snauwaert (Discussant): Democracy as Public Deliberation and the Psychology of Epistemological World Views and Moral Reasoning: A Philosophical Reflection.
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Volume 3, Number 1, 2009
Special Issue: Proceedings of the International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) “Human Rights Learning as Peace Education: Pursuing Democracy in a Time of Crisis”
Action Ideas in Educating for Human Rights and Towards a Culture of Peace in Puerto Rico
By Anita Yudkin Suliveres and Anaida Pascual Morán
On The Power(s) of Writing: What Writing Studies Can
Offer to Peace and Human Rights Educators
By Andrew Moss
Human Rights, Popoki and Bare Life
By Ronni Alexander
International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Education:
An Exploration of Differences and Complementarity
By Josefine Scherling
Spiritualiy: An Approach to Freedom and Democracy
By Jalka
Poetry and Peace: Explorations of Language and “Unlanguage†as
Transformative Pedagogy
By Mary Lee Morrison
Broadening Horizons: Is There a Place for Peace Education in the American Legal System and More Specifically in Family Law?
By MiaLisa McFarland
Anti-discrimination Education in Japan: Buraku Sabetsu Simulation
By Daisuke Nojima
Peace Playground
By Ava Blnesi
Doing What We Teach
By Jasmin Nario-Galace
Peace Channel: A channel for human rights education and peace in Nagaland.
By Fr. Rev. C.P. Anto
Reclaiming a Democratic Political Community: A Review of Paul Theobald, Education Now: How Rethinking America’s Past Can Change Its Future (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2009).
By Dale T. Snauwaert
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Volume 2, Number 2, 2008
Special Issue: Proceedings of the International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) — “Critical Pedagogy: Educating for Justice and Peace.”
The International Institute on Peace Education:
Twenty-six Years Modeling Critical, Participatory Peace Pedagogy
By Tony Jenkins
Persistence of Vision: Hegemony and Counter-hegemony in the Everyday
By Robert E. Bahruth
Hans-Peter Dürr’s Thought as a Source for Peace Work
By Francesco Pistolato
Unity-based Peace Education: A New Approach to Peace Education by Transforming World Views
By Havva Kök
Popoki, What Color is Peace? Exploring critical approaches to thinking, imagining and expressing peace with the cat, Popoki
By Ronni Alexander
Teaching About Peace Through Children’s Literature
By Stan F. Steiner
The UNESCO Schools Cooperation Network Health Education Programme
By Nicoletta Mantziara
Political Pedagogy Vs Coexistance Education: The Case of Israel\Palestine
By Udi Adiv
Youth Initiatives in Conflict Zones: Focus Northern Ireland
By Fran Russell Banks
Peace Education in Marginalized Communities in Nigeria: The ‘Protect Our Future’ Project
By Imoh Colins Edozie
Thailand’s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act B.E. 2551 (2008): A New Development in Human Rights Protection and Justice
By Son Ninsri
Weapons of Mass Destruction: Challenges Towards Nonproliferation in the Middle East
By Nilsu Goren
The Origins of Critical Pedagogy, or the Freirization of Paolo
A poem by Rinah Sheleff
Volume 2, Number 1, 2008
Special Issue on The Earth Charter
Essays on Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine
Education for Sustainable Development based on the Earth Charter
By Abelardo Brenes, Ph.D.
The Earth Charter: Peace Education and Values for a Shared WorldÂ
By Karen Huggins and Kevin Kester
The Earth Charter, a Radical Document: A Pedagogical Response.
by Sean Blenkinsop and Chris Beeman
The Cosmopolitan Ethics of the Earth Charter: By Dale T. Snauwaert
Essays on Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine
A Pedagogy of Alternatives: A Peace Education Comment on Mark Webb’s Letter to Naomi Klein
By Betty A. Reardon
A Letter to Naomi Klein
By Mark Porter Webb
Book Review — The Encyclopedia of Peace Education (edited by Monisha Baja)
By Hakim Williams
Volume 1 Number 2, 2007
Exploring Our Perceptual Limitation by Lyudmila Bryzzheva
The Preparation of Pre-Service Teachers for a Culture of Dignity and Peace by Melodie Wilson and Yvette Daniel
Connecting Inner and Outer Peace: Buddhist Meditation Integrated with Peace Education by Edward J. Brantmeier
Volume 1 Number 1, May, 2007
Special Issue: What is the Relationship Between Knowledge and Peace?
Words Matter: Exposing the Camouflaged Violence of Hunting Rhetoric by Heidi A. Huse, Ph.D
Nonviolence as a Way of Knowing in the Public School Classroom by Anya Jacobson
A Book Review of Avengers of the New World by Monisha Bajaj, Ed.D
