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Decolonial Human Rights And Peace Education: Recognizing And Re-Envisioning Radical Praxes, Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams, Maria Jose Bermeo

International Journal of Human Rights Education

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Joyful Human Rights By William Paul Simmons, Maria Autrey

International Journal of Human Rights Education

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Race For Profit: How Banks And The Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Gertrude Jenkins

International Journal of Human Rights Education

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Becoming Rwandan: Education, Reconciliation, And The Making Of A Post-Genocide Citizen By S. Garnett Russell, Liliana Deck

International Journal of Human Rights Education

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Just Violence: Torture And Human Rights In The Eyes Of The Police By Rachel Wahl, David Tow

International Journal of Human Rights Education

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Bridge Over Troubled Water: Human Rights Education And Nongovernmental Organizations In Hong Kong, Thomas Tse

International Journal of Human Rights Education

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Re-Envisioning Trauma Recovery: Listening And Learning From African Voices In Healing Collective Trauma, Jean Pierre Ndagijimana, Kissanet Taffere

International Journal of Human Rights Education

This paper critiques the influence of neoliberalism on mental health and the ways in which it denies the knowledge and capacities of Black African immigrants in the United States. It promotes and proposes community-driven approaches to supporting survivors of human rights abuses. The commentary is divided in two major parts: The first section discusses the impacts of monetization of Black grief, psychologization of poverty, and predatory inclusion on survivors of human rights abuses and staff within the humanitarian sector. The last section proposes more culturally relevant and humanizing healing pathways and frameworks for African immigrants in the United States. We …

Chasing Rainbows: Finding Our Interwoven Narrative And Voice Through Collaborative Auto-Ethnographic Poetry, Michiko M. Kealoha

International Journal of Human Rights Education

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This notes from the field article documents the author’s journey to discovering collaborative auto-ethnographic poetry as a powerful pedagogical tool to decolonizing peace education and human rights education. With the ability to disrupt colonized academic knowledge through counter-narratives and ancestral practices, collaborative auto-ethnographic poetry can be practiced as therapy, inquiry, liberation, and validation that strengthens voices in an authentic way—equipping people with the ability to promote peace and social justice. What started as a class icebreaker grew into a project that brought communities together on the international stage. …

Artist’S Statement, Erin O’Halloran

International Journal of Human Rights Education

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Re-Conceptualising Human Rights Education: From The Global To The Occupied, Mai Abu Moghli

International Journal of Human Rights Education

This article provides a critical view of Human Rights Education (HRE) within a context of colonial occupation and an authoritarian national ruling structure. It explores the reasons behind the introduction of HRE in Palestinian Authority (PA) schools in the Occupied West Bank and investigates how teachers and students make meaning of and implement HRE. Through examining the relationship between HRE and the struggles against injustice, the article problematizes the theoretical basis of HRE and highlights the importance of indigenous knowledges and strategies utilized to bring the decontextualized global to the nuanced and politicized local. This article shows that institutionalizing HRE …

Decolonizing Approaches To Human Rights And Peace Education Higher Education Curriculum, Danielle Aldawood

International Journal of Human Rights Education

While the project of decolonization within higher education has become important in recent years (Kester et al., 2019), human rights and peace education specifically have undergone critique (Coysh, 2014; Al-Daraweesh and Snauwaert, 2013; Barreto, 2013; Zembylas, 2018; Williams, 2017; Cruz and Fontan, 2014). This critique has focused on the delegitimization of non-Western epistemologies around peace and human rights and the reliance on Eurocentric structures of thought and power within curricular and pedagogical practices (Kester et al., 2019). The decolonization of academic human rights curricula is the primary focus of this research; through interviews and content analysis with U.S. human rights …

The Relevance Of Unmasking Neoliberal Narratives For A Decolonized Human Rights And Peace Education, Bettina Gruber, Josefine Scherling

International Journal of Human Rights Education

Education plays an important role in the dissemination of neoliberal narratives. The neoliberal approach to education focuses on human capital and subordinates people to the pure logic of the market. It shapes educational processes in a considerable way, including Human Rights Education (HRE) and Peace Education (PE). The conscious perception and unmasking of the prevailing neoliberal paradigm should therefore be a high priority in a critical approach to HRE and PE. On the basis of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development in which HRE and PE are considered vital to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, the authors show that it …

Toward A Decolonial Ethics In Human Rights And Peace Education, Michalinos Zembylas

International Journal of Human Rights Education

This article argues that interventions in HRE and PE that aim to decolonize understandings and praxes of peace and human rights will inevitably have to address the issue of decolonial ethics. Decolonial ethics imagines a set of ethical orientations that confront conventional assumptions about culture and history and challenge the normally uninterrogated consequences of coloniality (which is an enduring process that is still very much with us today, as opposed to colonialism which is understood as a temporal period of oppression that has come and gone) and Eurocentrism in disciplinary discourses and practices. Although both HRE and PE have historically …

A Decolonial Imperative: Pluriversal Rights Education, Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams, Maria Jose Bermeo

International Journal of Human Rights Education

This editorial introduction invites a decolonial dialogue between peace education and human rights education so as to recognize and re-envision radical praxes. It begins by framing the similarities between the two subfields and discussing the effects of the critical turn, with special emphasis on critiques of the colonial entanglements of West-enforced peace and hegemonic rights discourses. Underscoring the imperative of decolonization, it concludes with a call for pluriversal rights education as a decolonial successor to peace and human rights education. It also offers a brief overview of the articles included in this special issue and how they each contribute to …