The International Education Research Group examines how education, operating across multilayered levels from local and national to regional and global contexts, can foster reconciliation and peace. Recognizing that education directly shapes people’s memories, values, emotions, and identities, the group integrates perspectives from international education, peacebuilding, and reconciliation studies to analyze the formation of actors through education and the possibilities for their transformation. By approaching education from this perspective, the group seeks to move beyond static views of conflict and linear models of conflict resolution, offering new ways of understanding reconciliation in a deeply interconnected world.
Based on these research concerns, the group is currently preparing an edited volume within the International Reconciliation Studies Book Series that critically analyzes the role of international education in promoting reconciliation and peace. Focusing primarily on diverse cases in Asia, the volume examines how international education has been implemented as a practice supporting peace and reconciliation at multiple levels, including individual, local, national, regional, and global contexts. Particular attention is given to policy frameworks, bilateral and multilateral partnerships, institutional programs, and educational curricula, analyzing how factors such as power, politics, justice, and identity intersect within these structures.
Through comparative analyses of educational practices across historically, socially, and geopolitically diverse regions in Asia, the volume aims to present a theoretical framework for rethinking reconciliation and peacebuilding from the perspective of education, while also offering practical guidance for policy development and educational practice.
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