Education for democracy, dialogue and peace
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In this era of globalization, higher education is under pressure to respond to market demand of the knowledge economy if it has to remain relevant. This contrasts with sustained demand for intellectual leadership in social and political challenges characterized new forms of violence that call for relevant response from the academia. My contribution will briefly introduce the conventional wisdom in peace education and then move on to describe the context in which the education for peace in Rwanda had to be addressed after 1994. The specific example of the National University of Rwanda is here used to highlight the complexity of the challenges of peace education in the aftermath of high level conflicts.
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