Educating for Democracy

The central conflicts of the world today are closely related to cultural traditional and religious differences between nations. As we move to a globalized world these differences often become magnified entrenched and the cause of bloody conflict. Growing out of a conference of distinguished scholars from the Middle East Europe and the United States this volume is a singular contribution to mutual understanding and cooperative efforts on behalf of peace. The term paideia drawn from Greek philosophy has to do with responsible education for citizenship as a necessary precondition for effective democracy.