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An original collection of worldwide cases on the challenges and promises of teaching history in the aftermath of violence

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The volume provides critical insights into approaches adopted by curricula, textbooks and teachers around the world when teaching about the past in the wake of civil war and mass violence, discerning some of the key challenges and opportunities involved in such endeavors. The contributors discuss ways in which history teaching has acted as a political tool that has, at times, been guilty of exacerbating inter-group conflicts. It also highlights history teaching as an important component of reconciliation attempts, showcasing examples of curricular reform and textbook revision after conflict, and discussing how the contestations and difficulties surrounding such processes were addressed in different post-conflict societies.

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Bentrovato, Denise
Dr Denise Bentrovato is a Research Fellow in the Department of Humanities Education at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and the co-founder and co-director of the African Association for History Education (AHE-Afrika).

Korostelina, Karina V.
Prof Karina V. Korostelina is Director of the Program on History Memory and Conflict at George Mason University.

Schulze, Martina
Martina Schulze coordinated the Georg Arnhold Program on Education for Sustainable Peace at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig, from 2013 until 2016. She currently heads the International Office of Hamburg University of Applied Sciences.

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