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Abstract of "Peace education programs and the evaluation of their effectiveness" by Nevo, B. and Brem, I.

Citation:
Nevo, B., and; Brem, I. (2002). "Peace education programs and the evaluation of their effectiveness." In G. Salomon and B. Nevo (Eds.), Peace Education: The concept, principles, and practices around the world (pp. 271--282). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.


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These authors have attempted to gather the past 20 years of evaluation research on the effectiveness of Peace Education programs. They note that between 1981 and 2000 approximately 1,000 articles, chapters, reports, and symposia proceedings, dealing with a broadly defined peace education area, were listed on numerous data bases (ERIC, Psych-Lit, PsychInfo, etc.). Approximately 30% of these sources referred to a specific peace education intervention. They then created a taxonomy to summarize characteristic features of these programs. Of the approximately 300 published pieces on peace education intervention programs, about 100 had some report of effectiveness evaluation, but only 79 had sufficient detail for any analysis (full bibliography of all 79 sources are included as an Appendix in the back of their chapter). This chapter does not evaluate these studies in terms of their facets, but reports a general finding that the majority of these programs (51 out of 79) were found to be partially or highly effective.


 
 
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