Peace Learning in Conflict Transformation
with distinguished visiting
international scholar
Magnus Haavelsrud

March 23, 2006, 12:00-1:30 pm

Teacher’s College, Columbia University
Room to be announced
525 West 120th St. between Broadway and Amsterdam
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NO RSVP REQUIRED   - Special Brown Bag Session

Professor Haavelsrud will lead all in a discussion exploring aspects of how harmony between individual behavior and contextual conditions are created in conflict transformations through changes in both. Special attention will be given to the role of peace education in facilitating peace learning in conflict transformation.  

Magnus Haavelsrud is a Professor of Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. His work deals with the critique of the reproductive role of education and the possibilities for transcendence of this reproduction in light of the traditions of educational sociology and peace research. He took part in the creation of the Peace Education Commission of the International Peace Research Association at the beginning of the 70’s and served as the Commissions 2nd Executive Secretary 1975-79. He was the Program Chair for the World Conference on Education in 1974 and edited the proceeding from this conference entitled Education for Peace: Reflection and Action. He served as the Carl-von-Ossietzky Guest Professor of the German Council for Peace and Conflict Research. His publications include: Education in Developments (1996), Perspektiv i utdanningssosiologi ( Perspectives in the Sociology of Education (1997, 2nd edition), Education Within the Archipelago of Peace Research 1945 - 1964, (co-authored with Mario Borrelli, 1993), Disarming: Discourse on Violence and Peace (editor, 1993) and Approaching Disarmament Education (Editor, 1981).