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SUMMARY:Social Movement Learning &amp\; Knowledge Production in the Strugg
 le for Peace with Social Justice - Professor Mario Novelli\, Centre for In
 ternational Education\, University of Sussex
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DESCRIPTION:This paper will present initial reflections from a two-year ES
 RC funded research project that began in January 2018\, seeking to underst
 and how social movements\, in some of the most complex and conflict affect
 ed contexts in the world\, build knowledge\, develop strategy\, and educat
 e in the pursuance of peace with social justice. The research will contrib
 ute to a redefining of education’s role in supporting international deve
 lopment through emphasising how education can play a role in strengthening
  the capacity of marginalised communities to advocate and struggle for the
 ir rights and gain concessions from often recalcitrant elites seeking to r
 eproduce their own power and wealth.\nFour participatory case-studies of f
 our very different types of social movement\, in Colombia\, Nepal\, Turkey
  and South Africa will be explored through a process of participatory\, co
 llaborative research that is carried out in close collaboration with the r
 espective social movements. The case studies will then be synthesized to d
 raw out comparative insights on the learning and knowledge production stra
 tegies of social movements in contexts of conflict. The social movements\,
  who are core partners in the research\, are NOMADESC\, a grassroots NGO b
 ased in Colombia\; The Housing Assembly\, a grassroots movement from South
  Africa\; The HDK (Peoples' Democratic Congress)\, a coalition of social m
 ovements in Turkey\; and the Madhesh Foundation\, Nepal\, an organisation 
 that works with and for the excluded Madhesh community. Each movement\, in
  different ways\, advocates with and for marginalized communities seeking 
 to defend and extend their basic rights to education\, health\, housing\, 
 life\, dignity and equal treatment before the law. Each movement\, to diff
 erent degrees\, has also been victim to state repression\, violence agains
 t it members and activists\, and sustained surveillance and persecution. T
 he paper will also outline our understanding of social movement learning a
 nd knowledge production and the strategies\, methodologies and theories th
 at underpin our approach.\n
LOCATION:Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\
 , Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, room GS4
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