IDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Peacebuilding, Structural Violence, Peace Education
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Rethinking pedagogies in divided societies latin america, and around the world. How people experience and handle conflict depends on their location in the changing social, political and cultural contexts that shape their learning and their options for responding. Structural, cultural, and direct physical violence disproportionately harm people with the least social power, such as girls and marginalized groups, thereby deepening social inequality ie, segregated residential schools, forced upon aboriginal peoples in. North america, deepened still-ongoing colonial oppression through physical, sexual, spiritual, and cultural violence. Most major armed conflicts today are civil wars and insurgencies, not inter-state. Schools and teachers, because of their relationship to human rights and to nation- state employers, are often specifically targeted in terrorism and war. Resources allocated to armaments are thereby denied to human needs or to education. Conversely, after costa rica abolished its army in 1948 and allocated the savings to public education and health, it became the most prosperous and peaceful country in.