Awards
- Winner of Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award 2015
- Winner of Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award 2016
- Winner of University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order 2017
- Winner of W. Gabriel Carras Research Award 2015
- Winner of W. Gabriel Carras Research Award 2017
Overview
Foreign-backed funding for education does not always stabilize a country and enhance its statebuilding efforts. Dana Burde shows how aid to education in Afghanistan bolstered conflict both deliberately in the 1980s through violence-infused, anti-Soviet curricula and inadvertently in the 2000s through misguided stabilization programs. She also reveals how dominant humanitarian models that determine what counts as appropriate aid have limited attention and resources toward education, in some cases fueling programs that undermine their goals. For education to promote peace in Afghanistan, Burde argues we must expand equal access to quality community-based education and support programs that increase girls' and boys' attendance at school. Referring to a recent U.S. effort that has produced strong results in these areas, Burde commends the program's efficient administration and good quality, and its neutral curriculum, which can reduce conflict and build peace in lasting ways. Drawing on up-to-date research on humanitarian education work amid conflict zones around the world and incorporating insights gleaned from extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Burde recalculates and improves a popular formula for peace.
Full Product Details
Author: Dana Burde
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231169295
ISBN 10: 0231169299
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 28 November 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: English
Reviews
Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan lays out a detailed history of education in the Afghan context, its importance, and how educational funds can be effectively used to avoid conflict.... This book is a welcome contribution to the field of both international and comparative education as well as conflict studies.--Mujtaba Hedayet Comparative Education Review
Author Information
Dana Burde is an assistant professor of international education at New York University's Steinhardt School and holds affiliations with the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, NYU Abu Dhabi, and the NYU Wagner School of Public Service. Her research examines the effects of war on education and how to mitigate these effects; the relationship between education and political violence; and transnational advocacy and humanitarian action.
