TY - JOUR
T1 - Between ‘the paradox of liberalism’and ‘the paradox of decoloniality’
T2 - education for peacebuilding in conflict settings
AU - Hajir, Basma
PY - 2023/1/1
Y1 - 2023/1/1
N2 - This article extends current debates in Education for Peacebuilding (EfP) in conflict settings. It presents and discusses two paradoxes I have observed when examining EfP literature and engaging in conversations with EfP scholars: ‘the paradox of liberalism’ and ‘the paradox of decoloniality’. I unpack these two paradoxes by engaging in conceptual synthesis and analysis and stitching together scholarly arguments in EfP, the larger field of peacebuilding, and decolonial thinking. I argue that by assuming liberal norms of conflict management, EfP scholarship is increasingly divorced from the complex material ontologies of contemporary conflicts. I caution against appropriative invocations of decolonial work in EfP, and I draw on actual examples to discuss their manifestations. I highlight tendencies to prioritise the onto-epistemological concerns of decoloniality over the political ones and to overlook the immediate needs of Southern populations. The article offers theoretically informed reflections and questions to stimulate further conversation.
AB - This article extends current debates in Education for Peacebuilding (EfP) in conflict settings. It presents and discusses two paradoxes I have observed when examining EfP literature and engaging in conversations with EfP scholars: ‘the paradox of liberalism’ and ‘the paradox of decoloniality’. I unpack these two paradoxes by engaging in conceptual synthesis and analysis and stitching together scholarly arguments in EfP, the larger field of peacebuilding, and decolonial thinking. I argue that by assuming liberal norms of conflict management, EfP scholarship is increasingly divorced from the complex material ontologies of contemporary conflicts. I caution against appropriative invocations of decolonial work in EfP, and I draw on actual examples to discuss their manifestations. I highlight tendencies to prioritise the onto-epistemological concerns of decoloniality over the political ones and to overlook the immediate needs of Southern populations. The article offers theoretically informed reflections and questions to stimulate further conversation.
KW - Education for peacebuilding (EfP)
KW - education and conflict
KW - paradox of liberalism
KW - the paradox of decoloniality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85145474287&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14767724.2022.2160971
DO - 10.1080/14767724.2022.2160971
M3 - Article
SN - 1476-7724
JO - Globalisation, Societies and Education
JF - Globalisation, Societies and Education
ER -