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Recap of ASEN Seminar: Education and Ethnopolitical Stability in the Basque Country, Chile and South Tyrol

Sarah Radclifffe (R) and co-author Andrew Webb (L), both from University of Cambridge, presenting their paper

Verena Wisthal, University of Leicester, presents her findings on education and migration in South Tyrol (R) with co-panelists Stuart Durkin of the University of Aberdeen (middle) and Sarah Radcliffe (far left), Cambridge University.

On January 29, 2014, ASEN, in conjunction with SEN and the LSE Department of Government, hosted a seminar on Education and Ethnopolitical Stability in the Basque Country, Chile and South Tyrol. Three papers from SEN Journal’s Special Issue on Ethnicity, Nationalism and Education were presented, including:

“Mapuche Demands during Educational Reform, the Penguin Revolution and the Chilean Winter of Discontent” by Andrew Webb and Sarah Radcliffe

“Advancing Peace Culture in the Basque Autonomous Community: The Basque Education Plan for Peace and Human Rights (2008–2011)” by Stuart A. Durkin

“Identity Politics in the Educational System in South Tyrol: Balancing between Minority Protection and the Need to Manage Diversity” by Verena Wisthaler

All of these articles are available for free at the above-mentioned links.

More information on the ASEN Seminar Series may be found here.

SEN Journal Online Exclusives – ‘Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Education’ (4): Education, Reconciliation, and Peace-building in the Basque Region

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Our special series on Nationalism and Education from the SEN Online archives comes to an end with…

‘Advancing Peace Culture in the Basque Autonomous Community: The Basque Education Plan for Peace and Human Rights (2008-2011)’, by Stuart Durkin, in Volume 13, Issue 3 (December 2013), pp. 342-357.

‘Approved in December 2007, The Basque Education Plan for Peace and Human Rights (2008-2011) represents the most sophisticated policy development of its kind in over 30 years of autonomous governments. While by no means a panacea for ethno-nationalist conflict in this context, the policy is nevertheless a significant development and carries the potential to make a significant contribution to the cause of sustainable peace-building and reconciliation.

By way of both an exposition of its principal aims and objectives, as well as an analysis of the political furore which accompanied its development, the article exposes the policy’s principal limitation, its tendency towards indirectness. The article argues, however, that in structural terms peace education is advanced through the creation of a coordinating forum between the Basque government and organised Basque civil society. Moreover, despite this tendency towards indirectness, the policy initiates the necessary task of approaching issues hitherto largely avoided.’

ASEN Seminar: Education and Ethnopolitical Stability in the Basque Country, Chile and South Tyrol – January 29, 2014

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SEN and ASEN, in conjunction with the Department of Government, LSE, would like to invite you to our upcoming seminar titled “Education and Ethnopolitical Stability in the Basque Country, Chile and South Tyrol” as part of the ASEN Seminar Series 2013-2014. Three papers from SEN Journal’s latest special issue on “Ethnicity, Nationalism and Education” will be presented. The seminar will take place on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at 6:15 p.m. in KSW, Room 2.12 at the London School of Economics, 20 Kingsway.

KSW 2.12 at the LSE Campus (Please see the following link for directions http://www2.lse.ac.uk/mapsanddirections/findingyourwayaroundlse.aspx)

No Tickets Required

ASEN and SEN look forward to seeing you there.