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Peace Education

Spring 2009

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Message fromthe SIG Chair

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Peace EducationConferences

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Summer InstituteSeries

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Peace Educationin Spain

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New BooksAnnouncement

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Grants, Projects &Awards

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Peace EducationOnline Resources

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Development &

News in the feld

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A Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association

Notes written by people visiting the Peace Education booth during Maryland Day (see story on p. 20)

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Dear Peace Education SIG members,

s I step in to the shoes of Bill Timpson, our retiring SIG Chair I wouldlike to take this opportunity to thank him for his leadership and forthe time and energy he has dedicated to the SIG over this last year as SIGChair and the previous year as Program Chair. We are all very grateful tohim.I am very happy to report on another successful Peace Education SIG program at AERA 2009. It waswonderful to see many of you in San Diego and those of you we did not see we hope to catch up with

at AERA 2010 in Denver. Those of us coming from weer climes particularly enjoyed the sunshine and

blue skies of San Diego!The quality of research presented at the Peace EducationSIG sessions was high with our program including a total ofseven sessions, including two paper sessions, two interactivesymposia, two roundtable sessions and our business meeting.In the interactive symposium

Peace, Gender, and PeaceEducation: New Paradigms for Peace Building,

Jing Linand Brecken Chinn Swartz challenged us to transcend thedivision of masculinity and femininity and search for waysto build inclusive, respectful,and compassionate humanrelationship for long lastingpeace on Earth. The papersession

Identifying InnovativeSpaces for the Development ofPeace Education Research and Practice

considered, either explicitly or

implicitly, the adoption of transdisciplinarity as a tool to dene and shapethe eld of peace education, with a theme of crossing both conceptual

and practical boundaries. The paper session

A Critical Reection onPeace Education in Conicted Societies: New Directions in Theory and

Practice

highlighted the dangers of adopting a “one size ts all” approach

to peace education, when the historical and socio-political nuances of

diverse and conicted contexts always mediate the success or otherwiseof peace education eorts. We were particularly pleased to welcome a

team from the University of Cincinnati who challenged us with their

Message from SIG Chair, Dr. Claire McGlynnQueen’s University Belfast

Reporting on the Peace EducationSIG Program at AERA 2009

The team from the University of Cincinnatiled by Dr. Marvin BerlowitzDr. Zvi Bekerman from theUniversity of Jerusalempresenting during the conference

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symposium

The Eurocentric Bias of Peace Education as an Explanation for its Marginalized Status

in Public Education

and their proposition that a major factor contributing to the marginalization of

peace education is the fact that the perspectives and interests of African Americans tend to be excludedor distorted in the literature and programs associated with Peace Education. A range of

DiversePerspectives on Peace Education

was also presented in two roundtable sessions. As the last roundtable

session was the very last session scheduled on the Friday aernoon the presenters kindly agreed to join together for a very productive discussion and exchange of research insights. The nal part of our

AERA programme was the Peace Education SIG business meeting at which B. Jeannie Lum from theUniversity of Hawai’i and the Editor of the

Journal of Peace Education

, gave a challenging paper entitled

Legitimation Issues about the Field of Peace Education: Myth or Reality

Peace Education SIG Business Meeting

A quick summary of the business discussed:

SIG offIcerS elected

Chair

Claire McGlynnQueen’s University Belfastc.mcglynn@qub.ac.uk

Program Chair

Elavie Ndura-OuédraogoGeorge Mason Universityendura@gmu.edu

Secretary

Jing Lin, University of Maryland

jinglin@umd.ed

Newsleer Editor

Rosemary BlanchardCalifornia State University, Sacramentorblnchrd@csus.edu

Assistant Program Chair

Martin Berlowitz, University of Cincinnatimarvin.berlowitz@uc.edu

Past Chair

Bill Timpson, Colorado State Universitywilliam.timpson@colostate.edu

Blog Director

Joy Wiggins, University of Texas at Arlington

jwiggins@uta.edu

New Board Members

Meredith Smith, University of Cincinnatimeredith.smith@uc.edu

Kelli Jee, University of Cincinnati

jeekm@email.uc.ed

uEdward Brantmeier, Colorado State Universityedward.brantmeier@colostate.edu Jacquie Daugherty, University of Cincinnati

daughejd@ucmail.uc.ed

The Leadership Team: Past Chair Bill Timpson(second row right), Current Chair Claire McGlynn(second row left), Program Chair Elavie Ndura-Ouédraogo (front row right), Board Member Edward Brantmeier (front row left)