Teaching about the Violent Past : Opportunities and Challenges for Teachers in Conflict-Affected African Societies

Policy recommendations and strategies to support teachers in addressing the violent past. Education plays a vital role in fostering reconciliation and teaching peace in conflict-affected societies.Conflict-history education, in particular, helps to replace fear and hatred with mutual understanding.While peace education has been explored across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond, curricular reforms often overlook teachers-despite their key role in achieving success.. Building on insights from education sciences, sociology, political sciences, memory studies and social psychology, this book introduces a novel and interdisciplinary framework to analyse secondary school teachers’ engagement with conflict-history education, using both qualitative and quantitative methods.It focuses on three distinct locations-Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, and the Democratic Republic of Congo-that differ in the intensity of violence experienced and the time elapsed since conflict ended. This practice-oriented book aims a