ERIC Number: EJ1466174
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
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Postgenocide and Decolonizing Approaches to Peace Education in the Anthropocene
Christopher P. Davey1
Journal of Peace Education, v22 n1 p132-153 2025
This article addresses the intersection of genocide studies, climate change, and peace education. It does so by examining the state of these connections, and proposes a fresh concept for considering the entanglements of contemporary violence in the Anthropocene. A notion of postgenocide sees the elements of geopolitical order, warlordism, climate change and resource exploitation. Postgenocide is an approach to mass violence occurring beyond the usual framing of state violence and intent. It aims to enrich the ongoing decolonization of peace education, as well as empower peace educators in conveying these often-complex relations in a violence-prone and climate changing world. Thinking outside of legal constraints of genocide or emotive fuzziness of climate change, educators can broaden their appeals and promote decolonized thinking of how violence works, its agents, and who it impacts in the Anthropocene. Postgenocide offers a transformative research and praxis link frame beyond globalizing Holocaust education as a stand-in for human rights education. Peace educators can leverage global concepts like postgenocide to cut through and examine the complexity of such entanglements.
Descriptors: Death, Decolonization, Crime, War, Conflict, Ethnic Groups, Religious Cultural Groups, Education, Teachers, Peace, Postcolonialism, Climate, Change, Violence, Intersectionality, Global Approach, Educational Environment, Barriers, Human Relations, Humanization, Civil Rights, Social Justice
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Author Affiliations: 1Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University, Binghamton, USA