33 contributors addressed this theme in a variety of ways. In order to briefly indicate the contents, below please find as a footnote to this report, a list of the contributors and the title of their papers. The challenge confronting the participants of the open session was to identify possible common themes and educational challenged emerging from the the various local texts. While we need to look more closely at schools as mirrors and metaphors of the society surrounding it, we also need to look at which identities schools foster and negate, which modes of socialization are encouraged or overlooked by the practise of schools. There are close links between sustainability and democracy, empowerment and conscientization, resistance and recognition which the Peace Education Commission will have to address more closely in future.
Mediation is fundamentally dialogic, at the cultural as well as the individual level.
More than reinforcing the need for third party intervention, we need to look at modes of creative self-regulation and of building a pedagogy of hope beyond the suffering student. This years meeting was marked by the large number of papers presented and also the fact that the invitation aimed towards paper sessions. Throughout the conference, there was an ongoing discussion in the group regarding the format of future PEC meetings and there was a clear consensus that a more process oriented, interactive format is desirable in future. That being said, the evaluation of our sessions, conducted by . A sense of continuity, inspiration and joint effort was maintained throughout.