According to the Brookings Institution, unless we anchor ourselves and define where we are coming from and where we want to go as societies and institutions, discussions on systems transformation will continue to be circuitous and contentious.
This new book by Dale Snauwaert explores the normative dimensions of peace studies and peace education through the lens of moral and political philosophy.
This is the third in a three-part series dialogue between Betty Reardon and Dale Snauwaert on “Dialogue on Peace as the Presence of Justice.” The authors invite peace educators everywhere to review and assess their dialogue and the challenges outlined, and to engage in similar dialogues and colloquies with colleagues who share the common goal of making education an effective instrument of peace.
This is the second in a three-part series dialogue between Betty Reardon and Dale Snauwaert on “Dialogue on Peace as the Presence of Justice.” The authors invite peace educators everywhere to review and assess their dialogue and the challenges outlined, and to engage in similar dialogues and colloquies with colleagues who share the common goal of making education an effective instrument of peace.
This is the first in a three-part series dialogue between Betty Reardon and Dale Snauwaert on “Dialogue on Peace as the Presence of Justice.” The authors invite peace educators everywhere to review and assess their dialogue and the challenges outlined, and to engage in similar dialogues and colloquies with colleagues who share the common goal of making education an effective instrument of peace.
Are we living in a posttruth era? What elements constitute this? How has this impacted upon the initial denial, inaction, and eventual bewildering (and deadly) response to the pandemic – particularly in Western democracies? And how might educators respond?
This paper by Dale Snauwaert articulates a normative philosophical justification for Peace Education as a civic duty understood from within the imperatives of democratic political legitimacy.
“Peace education is premised upon the cosmopolitan belief that the moral community includes all human beings, that all human beings have moral standing, and thus war and peace, justice and injustice, are global moral considerations.” – Dale Snauwaert
The new issue of In Factis Pax: Online Journal of Peace Education and Social Justice (Vol. 12.1) is now available online – for free!
In Factis Pax is a peer-reviewed online journal of peace education and social justice dedicated to the examination of issues central to the formation of a peaceful society – the prevention of violence, political challenges to peace and democratic societies. Volume 10 Number 1, 2016 is now available.