Against a background of slow progress towards a more peaceful and plural society in
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Northern Irish democratic educators to develop user-friendly tools that help
educational practitioners undertake a deep scrutiny of everything that makes up
institutional life in order to improve learning-teaching for intercommunal
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school for peace formed the starting point for this work. Following a brief
contextualization and review of influential research, the new frameworks and tools
emerging from the research are shared: the ‘Institutional Map for Peace
with Social Justice’ (I-MAP); the ‘School Peacebuilding
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