Peace education hopes to foster peace-promoting attitudes like empathy and tolerance. It can also involve learning about the causes and possible solutions to specific conflicts. In our study, we set out to understand if, and how, peace educators in different conflict-affected places might support and collaborate with each other. By doing so, could they increase their impact within their own contexts?
Read MoreNegotiating peace agreements should ideally be a means of ending violence. The political reality in Latin America and many other places around the globe, however, teaches us that political violence and polarization tend to surge after armed fighting comes to an end. The 2016 peace agreement in Colombia promised a different path as it has been applauded for its unique inclusive and comprehensive spirit. The stalled implementation of key reform projects and the systematic killing of community leaders, former combatants, and human rights defenders (HRDs), nevertheless, seem to have cast the same violent shadow over this peace process five years after the ceremonial signing of the agreement.
Read MoreUnderstanding how to promote peace in the region is perhaps more pressing now than at any time in the post-Cold War era. The region faces a myriad of security challenges including the rise of extremism, proxy wars at the regional level, and the negative effects of climate change
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