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  • Article
  • Open Access
3,732 Views
13 Pages

31 January 2024

Peace has always been a topic of great importance and the origins of thinking about peace and education for peace can be traced back to ancient philosophy. In the 21st century, the presence of peace has been desired by all nations, societies and peop...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,049 Views
18 Pages

Is Peace Education out of Style? The (Im)Possibilities of a Transformative Education

  • Cristiane Prudenciano de Souza and
  • Fátima Velez de Castro

1 October 2025

This article investigates the (im)possibilities of Peace Education as a critical pedagogical practice in contexts marked by liberal ideologies. The question that guides the text is: has Peace Education ‘gone out of style’ in times marked...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,607 Views
19 Pages

8 September 2025

The end of the conflict in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002 provided an important context for exploring the role of peace education in restoring governance, rebuilding institutions, and promoting socio-economic development. Following the civil war,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,449 Views
20 Pages

By developing an interactive open source-based WebGIS information portal on war and peace for the online services of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) translates scientific knowledge into easi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,270 Views
21 Pages

29 September 2024

The aim of this research is to develop contemporary peace education that can be implemented in the pre-school period to ensure global citizenship. In this study, action research design, one of the qualitative research methods, was used. The study gro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,369 Views
18 Pages

Sustainable Societal Peace through the Integration of Bioethics Principles and Value-Based Education

  • Ravichandran Moorthy,
  • Sivapalan Selvadurai,
  • Sarjit S. Gill and
  • Angelina Gurunathan

16 March 2021

We live in a world where hatred and conflicts divide individuals, society, and countries. Although all faith systems and school curriculums emphasize some degree of peaceful co-existence, love, and compassion, the real-world situation is indeed abysm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,406 Views
15 Pages

24 February 2023

Any element that enables higher education institutions (HEIs) to set themselves apart in a positive and superior way in terms of their performance would be advantageous given the competitive climate in which they operate. The Erasmus+ Programme provi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
15,876 Views
20 Pages

4 January 2024

The concept of human dignity postulates that every individual inherently possesses intrinsic worth. This means that upholding human dignity demands an end to war and violence. Rooted in Catholic social teachings, human life is sacred, and the dignity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,516 Views
24 Pages

22 August 2021

For a positive global future, it is fundamental to tackle the existing web of psychological, economic, sociological, and cultural processes reflected in current education systems. Confronted with complex issues that are essential to the stability of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,226 Views
20 Pages

8 January 2019

There is growing evidence to support the relationship between levels of gender inequality in a society and its potential for conflict. Positive attitudes to gender equality in and through education strengthen social cohesion; consequently, there is a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,620 Views
16 Pages

25 June 2024

International education scholarships can be significant interventions at times of conflict and peace. Extant research in International Relations and in International Education begins to demonstrate this significance but predominantly in neo-liberal t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,095 Views
13 Pages

Tolerance in UAE Islamic Education Textbooks

  • Mariam Alhashmi,
  • Naved Bakali and
  • Rama Baroud

22 July 2020

The concept of “tolerance” has been thoroughly promoted within educational settings in light of the increasing need to foster co-existence and to nurture peaceful climates in societies. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Islamic education cur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,054 Views
19 Pages

Innovation and Resignification: Social Entrepreneurship for Reincorporating Women into Peace Communities

  • Luz Elena Malagón-Castro,
  • José Carlos Vázquez-Parra,
  • Gloria Clemencia Valencia-González and
  • Luis Guillermo Restrepo-Jaramillo

25 June 2025

Around the world, many post-conflict societies face the pressing challenge of reintegrating former combatants, especially women, into community life in ways that promote peace and sustainable development. Educational strategies that foster Social Inn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
12,705 Views
25 Pages

7 April 2023

The concept of covenant occupies a central place in the Qurʾān but has been understudied and underrepresented in discourses about Islam. This article contributes to redressing this lacuna by applying the method of content analysis to the Qu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
15,756 Views
57 Pages

Achieving and Monitoring Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship: A Systematic Review of the Literature

  • D. Brent Edwards,
  • Manca Sustarsic,
  • Mina Chiba,
  • Mark McCormick,
  • Melissa Goo and
  • Sara Perriton

13 February 2020

This paper presents the results of a systematic review of literature (56 studies) related to Sustainable Development Goal 4.7. The goal of the research reported on here is to contribute to the discussion around strategies for working towards and moni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,133 Views
21 Pages

4 November 2024

For decades, the armed conflict in Colombia has profoundly impacted across various domains, causing psychosocial, economic, environmental, political, and moral damages throughout the country. One of the most affected sectors has been education, which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,899 Views
17 Pages

15 August 2021

The complex nature of contemporary challenges requires a culture of cooperation between academic disciplines. However, to what extent do educational systems prepare students to think beyond the boundaries of austerely defined and often entrenched aca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,728 Views
16 Pages

Improving the quality of teaching and learning, as well as school coexistence are international priorities for the new educational challenges of the 21st century (UNESCO 37 C/4 resolution). Physical Education (PE) has become a key subject for educati...

  • Review
  • Open Access
63 Citations
10,786 Views
26 Pages

Sustainable Development Goals in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Narrative Review

  • Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez,
  • Stephanie Rodriguez-Besteiro,
  • Juan José Cabello-Eras,
  • Alvaro Bustamante-Sanchez,
  • Eduardo Navarro-Jiménez,
  • Macarena Donoso-Gonzalez,
  • Ana Isabel Beltrán-Velasco and
  • Jose Francisco Tornero-Aguilera

24 June 2022

The present narrative review aimed to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the sustainable development goals (SDGS). This information would allow a better comprehension of the actual state of the SDGS and a more efficient programming in fut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,969 Views
18 Pages

Adolescent ELLs Improve Their Academic English while Learning about the UN Online

  • Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth,
  • Chencen Cai and
  • Lauren McCoy

13 February 2019

This action research project aimed at evaluating and revising Actionthroughwords (ATW), an online course on language learning through content for high school English language learners. Our multifaceted purpose is to help English language learners in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,927 Views
9 Pages

3 May 2018

This article describes insights and consciousness transformations reported in several contemporary peace pilgrimage oral histories and autoethnographies, including my own. Autoethnography is a form of autobiographical writing that stresses the interp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,532 Views
14 Pages

Addressing Hostile Attitudes in and through Education—Transformative Ideas from Finnish Youth

  • Saija Benjamin,
  • Pia Koirikivi,
  • Liam Francis Gearon and
  • Arniika Kuusisto

2 November 2022

Amid global disturbances, the calls for educational institutions to promote peace and counter hostility intensify. However, policymakers and other adults typically draft the various programs developed for schools to pursue this mission. While young p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,511 Views
18 Pages

26 December 2022

As in a jigsaw puzzle, the pieces put together place before us the drama of the proliferation of new conflicts. Such are the times of today when people try to justify war on the grounds of belonging to different and incompatible cultures. Hence, ther...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
17,565 Views
15 Pages

The Interaction of War Impacts on Education: Experiences of School Teachers and Leaders

  • Abdulghani Muthanna,
  • Mohammed Almahfali and
  • Abdullateef Haider

19 October 2022

Education, the backbone of any nation’s development, demands the presence of not only infrastructure and facilities but also a peaceful environment. The war in Yemen has had a strong, negative impact on education. In our study, we employed narr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,857 Views
14 Pages

26 October 2022

By practicing the scholarship of teaching the authors examine their own practices in teaching online applied to in-service teacher education and education for sustainable development as part of ongoing quality improvement effort and annual course rev...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
12,036 Views
28 Pages

6 August 2012

Sustainability as a multifaceted and holistic concept is analyzed. Sustainability involves human relationship with elements such as natural environment, economy, power, governance, education and technology with the ultimate purpose of carrying forwar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,899 Views
18 Pages

23 March 2022

Education is the foundation of basic human rights and the peace of mankind as well as the pursuit of sustainable development. In this article, we have developed a blockchain-centered educational program contributing to Goal 4, Quality Education, amon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,616 Views
26 Pages

13 September 2024

The seventeen UN SDGs address critical global challenges. Among them, Goal 10—reducing inequality—and Goal 16—promoting peace, justice, and strong institutions—serve as foundational pillars in democracies, enabling the achieve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
10,665 Views
14 Pages

17 November 2021

Comenius is considered by many scholars to be the father of modern education, a title that he has thoroughly earned. His ideas about universal education for all children foreshadowed modern pedagogical developments, and he dedicated more than forty y...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,883 Views
12 Pages

30 April 2024

Deriving from the growing cultural and religious diversity in Germany and the need for educational professionals to be able to deal with heterogeneous groups and communicate to children about how to coexist peacefully with others, this essay focuses...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,590 Views
9 Pages

The institution of mediation as a method of alternative dispute resolution has recently entered the school environment. The present study was conducted to explore the views of primary and secondary school teachers on the forms of violence in schools,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,374 Views
14 Pages

24 January 2019

Actualizing education beyond the scope of traditional schooling and incorporating elements of critical pedagogy and social transformation are essential for efforts aiming to reduce inequalities and enhance the livelihoods of excluded populations. Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,527 Views
17 Pages

28 March 2023

This article aims to highlight how Islamic Religious Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country of rich cultural and religious diversity, promotes and advocates intercultural values of diversity, tolerance, solidarity, peace and dialogue in the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,896 Views
15 Pages

A Multiobjective Model for Analysis of the Relationships between Military Expenditures, Security, and Human Development in NATO Countries

  • Patricio Vallejo-Rosero,
  • M. Carmen García-Centeno,
  • Laura Delgado-Antequera,
  • Osvaldo Fosado and
  • Rafael Caballero

24 December 2020

The aim of this work is to design a multiobjective model to explain the behavior among military expenditures (MEs), the human development index, and the global peace index in countries belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,719 Views
20 Pages

15 October 2020

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a key instrument in transforming societies towards sustainable development, which can play a crucial role in the achievement of Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The main purpose of this paper i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,536 Views
15 Pages

Quality Education for All: A Fuzzy Set Analysis of Sustainable Development Goal Compliance

  • Luísa Carvalho,
  • Dora Almeida,
  • Ana Loures,
  • Paulo Ferreira and
  • Fernando Rebola

19 June 2024

The relationship between education and societal development is unquestionable. Education contributes to achieving both societies’ and individuals’ social and economic goals. Quality education is recognized as one of the Sustainable Develo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,514 Views
17 Pages

9 December 2021

This article analyses the educational role of historical memory in Spain in the context of Education for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals. The main objective is to show the utilitarian value of historical memory as an ena...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,792 Views
23 Pages

27 February 2021

As one of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda, gender equality is a necessary foundation for a peaceful and sustainable world. The integration of the frameworks of analysis and action provided by gender perspective in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
11,465 Views
44 Pages

24 April 2024

It is widely recognized that quality and sustainable education is a key enabler for all the SDGs, and that affective education significantly enhances such education. However, while certain pedagogical approaches have been found to support the compete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,047 Views
14 Pages

13 May 2021

Pakistan is a Muslim-majority country, and religion plays a great role in the life of society. This study examines how teachers from the religious, national, and international education sectors realize the concept of global citizenship education (GCE...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,214 Views
18 Pages

27 April 2021

Initiatives for preventing radicalization and violent extremism through education (PVE-E) have become a feature of global educational policy and educational institutions across all phases, from early childhood to universities, also in Finland. If sch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,948 Views
14 Pages

The P.E.A.C.E. Pack Program in Italian High Schools: An Intervention for Victims of Bullying

  • Annalisa Guarini,
  • Laura Menabò,
  • Damiano Menin,
  • Consuelo Mameli,
  • Grace Skrzypiec,
  • Phillip Slee and
  • Antonella Brighi

Background: Bullying is a serious public issue, which mainly occurs in school with negative consequences for the students involved as victims. Very few teacher-delivered interventions have shown positive changes in the victims. The present study aime...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,440 Views
14 Pages

The number of unaccompanied migrant children (UMC) that landed in Italy on a daily basis was 14,044 in 2022 and 18,820 in 2023 (as stated by the Italian Ministry of Interior). This research study examines Law 47/2017, which implements the United Nati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
10,635 Views
23 Pages

17 September 2019

In this paper, we present a thought piece examining recent core policing reforms introduced in the Republic of Ireland (ROI), responding to a perceived crisis of legitimacy, for An Garda Síochána (AGS) (translated: ‘The Guardian o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,996 Views
14 Pages

8 August 2022

This paper presents the case of endogenously generated community resilience to violent extremism by discussing the formation and functioning of community-based youth organizations (CBYOs) in post-conflict North Waziristan. In doing so, the paper deci...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
1,841 Views
28 Pages

Pedagogy of Hospitality: Critical Reflection on Teaching Language to Migrants

  • Andrés González Novoa,
  • María Lourdes C. González Luís,
  • Pedro Perera Méndez and
  • María Daniela Martín Hurtado

30 March 2025

The Critical Pedagogies Research Team (PEDACRI-ULL) participates in the Program for the Inclusion of Migrants at Risk of Social Exclusion (PIPE) 2023-1-ES01-KA220-ADU-000160578, funded by the European Union. This project aims to design, implement and...

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