Vol. 5 - The role of higher education in peace building and reconciliation processes
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Role of higher education in peace-building and strengthening national institutions
(2008)
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Open AccessSocrates believes that goodness and truth, positive essences and pure ethical and moral instincts are placed there divinely in the soul. However, they are not brought to consciousness unless they are awakened or learned. ... -
The university experience, a way to meet the Other A Lebanese Case
(2008)
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Open AccessHigher Education is characterized by the open-mindedness that it proposes to inculcate in its scholars, thus, preparing them to adopt a relational approach capable of permeating all forms of differences. However, reality ... -
Role of the Sudanese higher education institutions in the peace building process
(2008)
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Open AccessSudan experienced a long standing armed conflict in the south between the rebels and the central government. This 22 years old armed conflict resulted in mass displacement of people of southern Sudan to the north making ... -
What can Student Community Engagement programmes contribute to the development of citizenship in a society recovering from conflict?
(2008)
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Open AccessThis paper looks at the contribution that higher education might make to the development of citizenship and civic responsibility in a society recovering from conflict. Drawing on some preliminary research undertaken within ... -
Higher Education in Kosovo: Major Changes, Reforms and Development Trends at University of Prishtina and University of Mitrovica and their role in peapeace building and reconciliation during post-conflict period
(2008)
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Open AccessEducation system in Kosovo went through tremendous and courageous developments since June 1999, when conflict in Kosovo ended. Although Higher Education experienced essential reforms, there are pro et contra arguments ... -
The role of universities in peacebuilding processes in contexts of armed conflict: The experience of the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Colombia
(2008)
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Open AccessIn a country that has faced for decades armed conflict, the role that most of the private and public universities have play in peacebuilding is still reticent, because in most of the cases for these actors, and in general ...
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