Education, Conflict, War and Peace: From Pacification to Social Transformation

by Mario Novelli

Overview

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

This book provides a critical reflection on the relationship between education, conflict, war and peace and the global actors and practitioners that have devised strategies to engage and support education systems in conflict-affected contexts.

Exploring a wide range of issues from development assistance to education, peacebuilding, de-radicalisation programmes and global governance, it evidences the challenges and the promises of education’s complex relationship to war and peace. The book highlights the field’s entanglements with geopolitics and imperial interventions, which have shaped its actions and undermined and limited its potential to support social transformation towards peace with social justice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529229394
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	07/01/2026
Series:	Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256

About the Author

Mario Novelli is Professor in the Political Economy of Education at the Centre for International Education (CIE), University of Sussex and Visiting Professor, Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT), University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Towards a Critical Political Economy of Education and Conflict

2. The Global Governance of Education and Conflict: The Emergence of a Subservient Field

3. Education, War and Peace: A critical Review

4. Peace Education, Transformation and Pacification

5. Education, Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace: Systemic Challenges and Approaches

6. Violent Attacks on Education: Dynamics and Debates

7. The Securitization and Militarization of Education: From Post 9/11 realities to PREVENT

8. Social Movements, Popular Education and Resistance: Radical Alternatives to Building Peace with Social Justice in Conflict Affected Contexts

9. Critical Conclusions: Between Pessimism and the Politics of Hope