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Pedagogies for Building Cultures of Peace explores how normalizations of violence are constructed from the perspective of young adults and how pedagogies can be created toward building cultures of peace. Findings show the diverse ways in which enmity (or the dehumanized other) is constructed, including through socialization processes, associating difference as deficient, systems of exclusion, disengaged citizenship, and cultures of competition and rivalry. Results also show how critical adult education can reveal hidden forms of power embedded within normalizations of violence, creating opportunities for peacebuilding education. By collaboratively engaging in peace research with youth, and by explicitly exploring power as a central component of violence, violence transformation and peacebuilding education led by youth become imaginable.
Price: $62.00
Pages: 142
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: International Issues in Adult Education
Publication Date:
06 September 2018
ISBN: 9789004375215
Format: Paperback
"Pedagogies for Building Cultures of Peace is a useful resource both for centralizing current research on structural and cultural violence and the concomitant dehumanization of the “other” (…) This book is a theoretical treatment of a specific dialogic experience examining the normalization of violence. It is evident that the experience was significant for the participants, and the detailed reporting of the participant dialogue helps make clear some ways in which structures of violence are normalized for these youth. (…) [T]he central argument – that safe, collaborative, and critical dialogue functions as a viable pedagogical strategy for building real peace – is compelling". - Ryan Korstange (2020) Book Review. The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching, 1(1): 120.
Catherine Baillie Abidi, Ph.D. (2015), St. Francis Xavier University, is a part-time professor at Mount Saint Vincent University. She has published many articles on peacebuilding, violence transformation and community engagement.