About Book

This handbook encompasses a range of disciplines that underlie the field of peace education and provides the rationales for the ways it is actually carried out. The discipline is a composite of contributions from a variety of fields, including social psychology, philosophy, communication, and political science. Peace education is an applied subject practiced in various ways but must always be firmly based on established empirical disciplines. The volume includes contributions from expert scholars in fields that underpin peace education, as well as insights from practitioners applying peace education in diverse settings. It also addresses issues related to research and evaluation of peace education