Karina V. Korostelina - History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation : Reconsidering Joint Textbook Projects

This book analyzes the role of history education in conflict and post-conflict societies, describing common history textbook projects in Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Far East and the Middle East.

Ever since the emergence of the modern school system and the implementation of compulsory education, textbooks have been seen as privileged media. The knowledge they convey is relatively persistent and moreover highly selective: every textbook author must choose and omit, condense, structure, reduce and generalize information. Within this context, history textbooks are often at the center of interest. There are unquestionably significant differences regarding homogeneity or plurality of interpretations when concepts of history education are compared internationally.

This volume conducts a comparative analysis of common history projects in different countries and provides conceptual frameworks and methodological tools for enhancing the roles of these projects in the processes of conflict prevention and resolution. This book is timely, as issues of history education in conflict and post-conflict societies are becoming more popular with the increased realization that unresolved disagreements about historical narratives can, and often do, lead to renewed conflict or even violence.

This book will be of interest to students of peace studies and conflict resolution, political science, history, sociology, anthropology, social psychology and international relations in general.

Karina V. Korostelina is Associate Professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and Director of the Program on History, Memory, and Conflict at George Mason University, USA.

Simone Lssig is Director of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research and Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Braunschweig, Germany.

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History Education and Post- Conflict Reconciliation
Reconsidering joint textbook projects
Edited by Karina V. Korostelina and Simone Lssig

History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation

Reconsidering joint textbook projects

Edited by Karina V. Korostelina and Simone Lssig

with Stefan Ihrig

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p. cm. (Routledge studies in peace and conflict resolution)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. HistoryTextbooks. 2. HistoryStudy and teaching. 3.
International educationTextbooks. I. Korostelina, K. V. (Karina
Valentinovna) II. Lssig, Simone, 1964
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SIMONE LSSIG

KARINA V. KOROSTELINA

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KARINA V. KOROSTELINA

Karina V. Korostelina is Associate Professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and Director of the Program on History, Memory, and Conflict at George Mason University, USA. She has been Fulbright New Century Scholar and fellow at the Kennan Institute, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and at the Curriculum Resource Center of the Central European University. Her research projects have been supported by grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the Ebert Foundation, the Spenser Foundation, the Soros Foundation (Research Support Scheme, Managing Multicultural Communities Project, Renaissance Foundation), the United State Institute of Peace, the US National Academy of Education, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of USDS, INTAS, IREX, the Georg Eckert Institute and the Council of Europe. She is an author and editor of ten books, including