Challenges facing Education Leadership in the Shadow of War : International and Multicultural Perspectives from Zones of Conflict

This incredibly timely volume offers insight into how educational leadership is managed, demonstrated, and enacted in zones of conflict, underlining the pivotal role educational leadership plays in peacebuilding and conflict resolution efforts internationally.

This incredibly timely volume offers a stark insight into how educational leadership is managed, demonstrated, and enacted in zones of conflict, underlining the pivotal role educational leadership plays in peacebuilding and conflict resolution efforts internationally. Employing qualitative, quantitative and theoretical methodologies, as well as on-the-ground lived experience and empirical case studies, the book’s diverse chapters showcase perspectives from areas of current or historic conflict in Israel, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Jerusalem, and Norway. Guided by the overarching themes of resilience, decision-making, inclusion, and post-conflict rebuilding, chapters focus on a range of leadership contexts such as the Arab-Bedouin and Ukrainian education systems, refugee Ukrainian children in Russia, the work of women educational leaders in Pakistan, and the experience of Israeli educational leaders during the conflict. The book explores the depth of the emotional, social-cultural, organizational, pedagogical, and moral aspects that come with the challenges of education leadership in the shadow of war. Ultimately making a significant and ground-breaking addition to the literature on educational leadership in conflict zones, this book will be necessary for researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students working in educational leadership and strategy, international and comparative education, and the sociology of education.