Children, Education and Reconciliation
Alan Smith
Innocenti Working Papers
Abstract:
This paper examines truth and reconciliation commissions that have made reference to a longer-term role for education in coming to terms with the past and contributing towards future reconciliation. The countries reviewed are Guatemala, Liberia, Peru, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Timor-Leste. Some have developed strategies for children's participation and made recommendations for inclusion in the formal school curriculum. However, recommendations regarding a role for education have usually been very general in nature, with little specification of what is expected of educators in practical terms and little follow-through by education authorities. The paper therefore identifies a number of challenges if education is to have a role in truth and reconciliation. It also identifies potential areas for educational development and recommendations for future actions.
Keywords: children in armed conflicts; education; juvenile justice; right of self-expression; right to care and protection; transitional justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32
Date: 2010
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr and nep-edu
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:
There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.
Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucf:inwopa:inwopa607
Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
https://www.unicef-i ... -reconciliation.html
The price is All UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti publications can be downloaded from our website free of charge. Printed copies of some titles can also be ordered from the United Nations Publications website https://shop.un.org/search/unicef/node/29892.
Access Statistics for this paper
More papers in Innocenti Working Papers
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Patrizia Faustini (ity-florence_communications@unicef.org).