"Wayne Nelles's edited collection of essays is a much?needed theoretical and pragmatic contribution, which poignantly illustrates how education can potentially contribute toward undermining terrorism and building a critical pedagogy of peace." - Yusef Waghid, Stellenbosch University, Comparative Education Review
Introduction; W.Nelles PART ONE: THEORETICAL ISSUES Theoretical Issues and Pragmatic Challenges for Education, Terrorism and Security Research; W.Nelles Rethinking Human Vulnerability, Security, and Connection through Relational Theorizing; H.Ross Terrorism and the Pedagogy of Violence: A Critical Analysis; J.Nef PART TWO: AMERICA AND THE WORLD Doomed to Suspicion: A Qualitative Inquiry of Selected Middle Eastern Students on American Campuses after September 11, 2001; C.Culcer 9/11 and Civic Illiteracy; J.Marciano Cultural War through Sound Bytes: The Assault by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni on Critiques of U.S. Foreign and Military Policy Following September 11; S.McAninch PART THREE: SELECTED NATIONAL CASE STUDIES Communication and DAKWAH: Religious Learning Groups and Their Role in the Protection of Islamic Human Security and Rights for Indonesian Civil Society; A.F.Bakti Human Security and Education in a Conflict Society: Lessons from Northern Ireland; M.Cannon Education and Human Security in Sierra Leone: Discourses of Failure and Reconstruction; R.Krech & R.Maclure Education of a Non-State Nation: Reconstructing a University in the War Zone of Iraqi Kurdistan; S.Mojab & B.Hall PART FOUR: COMPARATIVE AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES The Changing Role of Education in a Post-September 11, 2001 World: Perspectives from East Africa, Taiwan, and the United States; S.Yao Cheng & W.J.Jacob Multiple Perspectives on Terrorism and Islam: Challenges for Educators in Egypt and the United States before/after September 11, 2001; M.Ginsburg & N.Megahed Systemic Higher Educational Crises, the Politics of Terrorism and International Assistance Programs in Post-Soviet Central Asia; M.S.Johnson PART FIVE: CONCLUSIONS Conclusions: Toward a New Critical Pedagogy in the Shadow of Perpetual War; W.Nelles