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Education, Conflict, and Peace

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Education is understudied by scholars and students of security studies, international relations, and comparative politics. When scholars in these fields think of education, they typically consider it a human right or a component of sustainable development, if they think of education at all. Relatively rarely, however, do these audiences think about education as important in the realms of violence and peace (King 2014). This contribution argues, however, that there are multiple relationships between education and violent conflict that need to be included as part of a holistic understanding of contemporary international security issues.

This entry focuses on four high-level relationships between education and conflict that should be of interest to scholars of security studies. Across these relationships, education and conflict are both independent and dependent variables and play positive and negative roles in society. Some of the roles are clearly intended whereas others...

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  1. International Education & Politics, New York University, New York, NY, USA

    Elisabeth King

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  1. University of Alberta, Alberta, AB, Canada

    Scott Romaniuk

  2. University for Peace, San Jose, Costa Rica

    Manish Thapa

  3. Nemzetkozi Tanulmanyok Intezet, Rm 503, Corvinus Univ, Inst of Intl Studies, Budapest, Hungary

    Péter Marton

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King, E. (2019). Education, Conflict, and Peace. In: Romaniuk, S., Thapa, M., Marton, P. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74336-3_609-1

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