Teaching about International Conflict and Peacemaking at the Grassroots Level
hc news headlines since September T 1 I , 2001, reveal how dramatically the naturc of international conflict and peacemahing has changed since the end of the c~olc i war. The media report terrorist bombings in Bali, Kenya, and Israel, Israeli attacks on Palestinian leaders, violence between Muslims and Hindus in Kashmir. civil war between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia and the Colombian government, and Al Qaeda operations in nearly forty countries Other stories describe advances and setback$ in the peacemaking process in long-stailding conflicts among Serbs. Croats. and Muslims in the former Yugosla\'ia, between Catholics and Protestiints in Northern Ireland, between Tutsis arid Hutus in the Great Lakes region 01' Africa, and between Tamil Tiger rebels and the government in Sri Lanka. To explain these events, the real-