Does Peace Education Make a Difference in the Context of an Intractable Conflict? Does Peace Education Make a Difference in the Context of an Intractable Conflict?

Abstract

Although the big wars seem to be behind us, local conflicts and tensions, often bloody and sometimes entailing horrendous massacres, are still around us. And if it is not an overt conflict, then it is inter-ethnic controversy accompanied by manifestations of racism and xenophobia. Yet, while conflict, tension, controversy and violence are highly salient and visible, quiet activities of peace education, reconciliation, antiracism and co-existence are carried out all over the world in such countries a