IAP BOOK SERIES
Peace Education
The editors of this series welcome manuscripts that address how peace education provides information about the roots of conflicts and strategies for peace. Peace education is an important part of peace-building, which helps avoid major conflicts by building a culture of peace through generating peaceful attitudes, dispositions, values, behaviors, action-orientations, and social structures. Books in this series will address how education can contribute to building a culture of peace by teaching: tolerance; diversity affirmation; common understanding; intercultural empathy; reconciliation; renewal; compassion; conflict management skills; and a variety of nonviolent, peace-building skills.
The editors welcome studies from a wide variety of disciplines—curriculum theory, educational psychology, history, philosophy, anthropology, and sociology of education, teacher education, comparative and international education, critical theory, cultural studies, language education, feminist studies, religious studies, and environmental education.
In our times, peace education efforts can be positive, integrative, restorative, generative, and transformative. In other words, rather than defining peace education in the negative such as education for the elimination of violence, peace education efforts can be understood in the positive as creative, generative efforts that integrate knowledge and action, that integrate differences in ways that both honor diversity and establish common ground. Peace education works on bringing people together. This series on peace education hopes to illuminate the problems, challenges, and rewards associated with using educational means to diminish/eliminate and avoid conflicts. How effective is peace education in bringing about peace? What are its strengths and weaknesses as a strategy to achieve peace? How is peace education carried out in different venues—colleges, schools, and community groups? How is peace taught in different cultures? The editors welcome manuscripts about war and peace and other peace studies themes that exhibit a clear connection to teaching and learning for solutions to promoting harmony and to building a peaceful world.
Please send proposals to Jing Lin, University of Maryland
 | Books, Not BombsTeaching Peace Since the Dawn of the RepublicBy Charles F. Howlett, Molloy College and Ian Harris, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee |
 | Building a Peaceful SocietyCreative Integration of Peace EducationBy Laura FInley, Barry University |
 | More than a CurriculumEducation for Peace and DevelopmentEdited by Johan Galtung, Founder, TRANSCEND: A Peace Development Environment Network and S. P. Udayakumar, Founder: South Asian Community Center for Education and Research |
 | Spirituality, Religion, and Peace EducationEdited by Edward J. Brantmeier, Colorado State University; Jing Lin, University of Maryland and John P. Miller, University of Toronto |
 | Think, Care, ActTeaching for a Peaceful FutureBy Susan Gelber Cannon, Episcopal Academy |
 | Transforming Education for PeaceEdited by Jing Lin, University of Maryland; Edward J. Brantmeier, Colorado State University and Christa Bruhn, University of Wisconsin |
