Education of Minorities and Peace Education in Pluralistic Societies

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The existence of minorities will grow in most countries of the world because of sociopolitical upheaval and economic crisis, both of which result in waves of migration. Contributors to this volume discuss the task of education to alleviate the problems arising from the mix of peoples of various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious backgrounds. No education system alone can create a just and equal society, and education by itself is not enough to achieve peace. Nevertheless, educational efforts assisted by other institutional commitments and actions are essential in order to create an atmosphere of justice, mutual recognition, and acceptance as preconditions for peaceful coexistence within groups and between people. As a result of worldwide migration in reaction to wars and other geopolitical conflicts, as well as economic crisis, many modern nation-states consist of a mix of people of various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious backgrounds. Indeed, there are very few countries that are monocultural. Here contributors discuss how it is imperative that multicultural education be promoted to achieve awareness, then tolerance, and finally acceptance of ethnic and other diversity within societies.

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Though largely implicit, the key connections among world peace, peace education, the observance of minority rights and the quality of minority education are never lost, making the book unusually cohesive for a symposium....Highly recommended. Graduate students, undergraduates, researchers, and faculty.-Choice
"Though largely implicit, the key connections among world peace, peace education, the observance of minority rights and the quality of minority education are never lost, making the book unusually cohesive for a symposium....Highly recommended. Graduate students, undergraduates, researchers, and faculty."-Choice

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YAACOV IRAM is Professor of Comparative and International Education, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He is currently the Chair holder of the Dr. Josef Burg Chair in Education for Human Values, Tolerance and Peace, UNESCO.