In order to determine how history education can be harnessed to reduce conflict attitudes and intentions and create a culture of peace, this book examines how history curricula and textbooks shape the identities of their students through their portrayals of ingroup and outgroup identity, intergroup boundaries, and value systems.

This study analyzes the practice of national self-imagination and puts forward a structural-functional model of national narratives. It describes the differences and conflicting elements of the national narratives that constitute the contested arena of nation-building in Ukraine.