Greetings!

The CIES Peace Education Special Interest Group (SIG) was initiated in 2005 to bring together members of the Comparative and International Education Society with common interests in the study of peace and conflict, human rights, and social justice in education. Currently the SIG has an active membership of some 50 students, practitioners, and scholars as well as an email list-serve that reaches more than 100 individuals.  Past SIG activities have included inter-disciplinary panels held at the CIES meetings, networking events, school visits, and co-sponsorship of a conference held by the Teachers College Peace Education Center at the United Nations in the summer 2007.  

We welcome scholars and practitioners who are interested in peace education and encourage dialogue and participation to strengthen the workings of this SIG. 

At the upcoming CIES conference in Chicago, Illinois (March 1-5, 2010), the Peace Education SIG will host panels that correspond to the overall conference theme of “Re-imagining Education.”
Past panels have discussed issues of race, class, gender, and dis/ability issues within peace education; situated meanings of peace and violence in diverse contexts; alternative, transformative methods of promoting equitable peace; peace and diversity with a focus on equity, access, and opportunity; building transcultural/intercultural borderlands that respect difference; dialogue in peace education practice and theory; human rights education; the dialectic between peace educator/learner within a framework of critical pedagogy; and the evaluation of peace education through the lens of equity and accountability.

Please feel free to contact us for more information about the CIES Peace Education Special Interest Group and its activities.

Best wishes,
Andria K. Wisler, SIG Chair (2009-2011) 
Visiting Assistant Professor in the Program on Justice and Peace
Georgetown University, Washington DC

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