Cambridge Peace and Education Research Group (CPERG)
About us
The Cambridge Peace and Education Research Group (CPERG) provides a hub for research students and faculty members at the University of Cambridge to exchange ideas and collaborate on projects that explore the relationships between conflict, peace, and education, both in the UK and internationally. Through its activities, CPERG aims to stimulate connections amongst theory, research and practice. CPERG is officially affiliated with the Knowledge, Power, and Politics research cluster at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.
CPERG was initiated in 2011 as a post-graduate special interest group. Since that time the group has organized a number of activities including regular seminars, a Conflict and Peace conference, a new route MPhil working group, and consultancy applications to international education and development agencies.
CPERG Board
Upcoming Events
Reading Session with CPERG
2nd of December, 1 PM until 2 PM UK Time.
Online, Teams.
Discussion on Clive Herber's "Building Back Better? Peace Education in Post-Conflict Africa"
Recent Blogs
Seven hundred thousand Ukrainians (and counting) in need of hope. What now?
Adelaide Di Maggio, 14 May 2022
Recent Research By Our Members
Hajir, B., Clarke-Habibi, S., & Kurian, N. (2021a). The ‘South’ Speaks Back: Exposing the Ethical Stakes of Dismissing Resilience in Conflict-Affected Contexts. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 0(0), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2020.1860608
Kester, K. (2021). Developing Peace Education Programs: Beyond Ethnocentrism and Violence.
Culshaw, S., & Kurian, N. (2021). Love as the lifeblood of being-well: A call for care for teachers in England’s schools. Pastoral Care in Education, 0(0), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643944.2021.1938647
Kester, K., Zembylas, M., Sweeney, L., Lee, K. H., Kwon, S., & Kwon, J. (2021). Reflections on decolonizing peace education in Korea: A critique and some decolonial pedagogic strategies. Teaching in Higher Education, 26(2), 145–164. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2019.1644618
Kester, K., & Glustein, B. (2021). LINKING GENDER AND RACE IN PEACE EDUCATION: PEDAGOGIES TO ADDRESS DIFFERENCE IN THE CLASSROOM.
Hilary Cremin , Hogai Aryoubi, Basma Hajir* , Nomisha Kurian and Hiba Salem (2021). Post-abyssal ethics in education research in settings of conflict and crisis: Stories from the field. British educational research journal, 2021-08, Vol.47 (4), p.1102-1119
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