Outline

Over the last two decades, security agendas have increasingly encroached on the field of international development and education. Expanding on broader debates on the merging of security and development, this topic examines the ways in which education programmes, funding and priorities have been drawn into counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism logics and practices, reflecting on both the continuities and disjunctures of these practices and their colonial legacies.

This topic looks at the following questions:

How and in what ways does education come 'under attack' in times of conflict, crisis and authoritarianism?
What is the relationship between security and development?
What are the risks of merging security and development in the education sector in conflict-affected states?

Lectures

Open access publications

Education and countering violent extremism: Western logics from south to north
Citation: Novelli, M. (2017). Education & Countering Violent Extremism: Western Logics from South to North. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education.

Implementing ‘Prevent’ in countering violent extremism in the UK: a left realist critique
Citation: Abbas, T. (2018). Implementing ‘Prevent’ in countering violent extremism in the UK: a leftrealist critique. Critical Social Policy.

Reflection and discussion

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