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Making Peace: How schools can help foster a more peaceful world

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Date: 23 Dec 2015 | by: Leah Shafer | Story Source: Harvard Usable Knowledge ~ Go to Original Article

As 2015 draws to a close, we hope for a new year where cooperation and empathy supersede violence and suspicion. For our final article this year, Usable Knowledge asks: Can education foster a more peaceful world?

According to Silvia Diazgranados Ferráns, an instructor and doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, it can. Her research on peace education reveals a complex field that seeks to help schools build communities that foster peacemaking and citizenship — to encourage students to…

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