Education Policy and Power-Sharing in Post-Conflict Societies

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This book explores the nexus between education and politics in Lebanon, Northern Ireland, and Macedonia, drawing from an extensive body of original evidence and literature on power-sharing and post-conflict education in these post-conflict societies, as well as the repercussions that emerged from the end of civil war. This book demonstrates that education policy affects the resilience of political settlements by helping reproduce and reinforce the mutually exclusive religious, ethnic, and national communities that participated in conflict and now share political power. Using curricula for subjects—such as history, citizenship education, and languages—and structures like the existence of state-funded separate or common schools, Fontana shows that power-sharing constrains the scope for specific education reforms and offers some suggestions for effective ones to aid political stability and reconciliation after civil wars.

 
Unique focus on the interplay between power-sharing government and education policy Shows that schools can reproduce the narratives and hierarchies underpinning power-sharing and help short-term political stability and legitimacy Advances theories of conflict management and of post-conflict education with important policy ramifications

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Giuditta Fontana

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“This well-composed book demonstrates original fieldwork, is genuinely comparative, and displays a mature grasp of the conceptual, empirical, and normative implications of consociational theory. Anyone interested in the educational arrangements within consociations should start here.” (Brendan O’Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA)

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