Education, State Ideologies, and International Conflict: A Sociological Framework for Peacebuilding and Social Cohesion
Journal: European Journal of Social Sciences Education and Research
Year: 2025

This article examines how state ideologies and the conflictual structure of the international system interact with social processes that shape war and peace, and it explains why education is a central mechanism for mitigating international conflict. Using a qualitative, theory-driven synthesis of international relations, political sociology, and sociology of education, the paper identifies key pathways through which conflict is produced and reproduced: strategic insecurity under anarchy, ideolog