Education, Conflict, War and Peace: From Pacification to Social Transformation

By Mario Novelli

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

This book provides a critical reflection on the relationship between education, conflict, war and peace and the global actors and practitioners that have devised strategies to engage and support education systems in conflict-affected contexts.

Exploring a wide range of issues from development assistance to education, peacebuilding, de-radicalisation programmes and global governance, it evidences the challenges and the promises of education's complex relationship to war and peace. The book highlights the field's entanglements with geopolitics and imperial interventions, which have shaped its actions and undermined and limited its potential to support social transformation towards peace with social justice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529229383
• ISBN13: 9781529229387
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Length: 256 Pages