Interview. Magnus Haavelsrud, on peace education: "Schools have a very important mandate"

Abstract

Magnus Haavelsrud is professor emeritus at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). is year, he participated in the VIII ULEPICC-SPAIN Communication and Peace Congress, with the paper "Revisiting the methodology of peace learning". It was in this context that this interview took place. Haavelsrud has an extensive career as a researcher in the field of peace education. He was part of the school program at the Institute for World Order in New York, chaired the program of the World Conference on Education (Keele University) and was Carl von Ossietzky Visiting Professor at the German Council for Peace and Conflict Research. He has also collaborated with the Nomura Center for Lifelong Integrated Education (Japan) and was a Distinguished Fellow of the South African Research Chair in Development Education (University of South Africa). He has also participated in peace programs in Latin America over the last two decades.