Education for Demilitarizing Youth in Post-Conflict Afghanistan

Autor/in	Matsumoto, Yukitoshi
Titel	Education for Demilitarizing Youth in Post-Conflict Afghanistan
Quelle	In: Research in Comparative and International Education, 3 (2008) 1, S.65-78 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1745-4999
DOI	10.2304/rcie.2008.3.1.65
Schlagwörter	Conflict; Social Integration; Foreign Countries; Role of Education; Educational Strategies; Peace; Military Personnel; Literacy Education; Youth; Teaching Methods; Educational Trends; Conflict Resolution; Afghanistan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Konflikt; Soziale Integration; Ausland; Bildungsauftrag; Lehrstrategie; Frieden; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bildungsentwicklung; Conflict solving; Konfliktlösung; Konfliktregelung
Abstract	This article examines both the largely negative role that education has played historically in contributing to conflict in Afghanistan and the ways that education has been purposefully employed as a post-conflict strategy aimed at building peace and social cohesion. The growing attention among academics and policy makers to the role of youth in post-conflict contexts, and the urgent need to reintegrate ex-combatants has led to the implementation of educational programming directed at Afghan youth as a central part of the country's Demobilization, Demilitarization, Reintegration (DDR) effort. Drawing on the author's field research and experience working on literacy programming for youth and adults in Afghanistan, this article investigates how the unfulfilled aspirations and needs of a "lost generation" of young Afghans have been addressed within DDR processes. It argues that the adoption of a more dialectic approach to the educational programming provided through DDR--one that engages with and offers alternatives to education's previously negative manifestations--may offer more potential than current programming. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10