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The Role of Education in Reconstructing Societies after Genocide in Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia.This project is part of a larger effort called Communities in Crisis, funded through the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center. The larger project looks broadly at the intersection of international justice, memory, and social reconstruction in the aftermath of mass atrocity in both Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. One of the main goals of Communities in Crisis is to encourage transnational coalition-building among researchers and activists around reconceptualizing issues of justice, development, and reconstruction, and ultimately to use these insights as a basis for policy recommendations.
The education portion of the project has established collaborations with local educators who are interested specifically in exploring whether and how nations and municipalities reform education after conflict and the direction of such reforms. The project focuses on both broader reforms and efforts to revise curricula in the subject areas of history and critical literacy. Of particular interest are decisions about teaching the recent past, especially as the schools set out to teach the next generation either to live together across ethnic and national boundaries or as they do not.
Sarah Warshauer Freedman and Harvey Weinstein are the principal investigators.
