Peace Education as a Form of Global Citizenship Education in Universities in Divided Settings

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Abstract

Peace education has been practiced as a form of global citizenship education for several decades. Since the establishment of the SDGs in 2015, this overlap between the two fields has been further amplified amid enduring and escalating conflicts that now emerge as key components of the contemporary global order. Through ethnographic data collected in four divided and conflict-affected settings — China/Taiwan, Cyprus, Korea, and Somalia/Somaliland — this study examines how contextualized curriculum and pedagogical practices of university educators in contexts fraught with division and conflict function to produce particular ideas about peace and global citizenship. Drawing on fieldwork, document analysis, and interviews with 40 faculty across the divided settings, the study shows how university educators support peacebuilding and efforts toward global citizenship.

Author

• Kevin Kester, Seoul National University