Transrational Peacebuilding Education to Reduce Epistemic Violence

Paths to Peacebuilding: Amnesty and the Niger Delta Violence

This mixed-method analysis of three Nigerian states explores the ways in which a major policy shift has produced short-term peace outcomes in a vastly contested terrain entailing conflicting interests. The central argument of "Paths to Peacebuilding," is that disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration can create peace in resource-conflicted societies when there is governmental will and comm...

Personal commitments needed to reduce violence.

RCT Testing Bystander Effectiveness to Reduce Violence

INTRODUCTION Bystander-based programs have shown promise to reduce interpersonal violence at colleges, yet limited rigorous evaluations have addressed bystander intervention effectiveness in high schools. This study evaluated the Green Dot bystander intervention to reduce sexual violence and related forms of interpersonal violence in 26 high schools over 5 years. DESIGN A cluster RCT was cond...

Epistemic governance and epistemic innovation policy in higher education

Epistemic governance and epistemic innovation policy formulate a critique against too-narrowly defined approaches to governance, where governance follows onesidedly bureaucratic or technocratic considerations. Instead, epistemic governance (also quality management and quality enhancement) and epistemic innovation policy should be regarded as a plea for a more comprehensive understanding, where ...

Epistemic Structure of Islamic Philosophies of Education: Foundationalism or Coherentism

Epistemic Structure of Islamic Philosophies of Education: Foundationalism or Coherentism M.R. Madanifar N. Sajjaadiyeh, Ph.D. Given the two approaches to epistemology emphasizing foundationalism or coherentism, it is of interest to know if the epistemic structure of Islamic philosophies of education is related to any of these two or has a structure of its own, given that each...