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Peace and Human Rights Education

Peace and Human Rights Education is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 4.2k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the theoretical foundations, pedagogical approaches, and practical challenges of peace education and human rights. It delves into topics such as conflict transformation, social justice, critical peace education, post-conflict reconstruction, and the role of education in promoting global citizenship and gender equality.

  • Peace Education
  • Human Rights Education
  • Conflict Transformation
  • Social Justice
  • Critical Peace Education
  • Post-conflict Reconstruction
  • Ethnic Conflict
  • Global Citizenship
  • Teacher Training
  • Gender Equality
Research works
4.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
429
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+68%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Peace and Human Rights Education

Which countries lead Peace and Human Rights Education research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (293 and 127 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 293 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 127 works
  3. 3 Germany 114 works
  4. 4 India 111 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 75 works
  6. 6 South Africa 66 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 65 works
  8. 8 Nigeria 64 works
  9. 9 Canada 57 works
  10. 10 Pakistan 47 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 28.7%United Kingdom: 12.5%Germany: 11.2%India: 10.9%6 others listed: 36.8%29%largest
United States293 · 28.7%United Kingdom127 · 12.5%Germany114 · 11.2%India111 · 10.9%6 others listed375 · 36.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Peace and Human Rights Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy publishes the most Peace and Human Rights Education research, followed by University of South Africa and University of Cambridge.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Institute for Peace Research and Security PolicyGermany 42 works
  2. 2 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 11 works
  3. 3 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 8 works
  4. 4 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 8 works
  5. 5 George Mason UniversityUnited States 7 works
  6. 6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 7 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 7 works
  8. 8 Woodbury UniversityUnited States 6 works
  9. 9 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 6 works
  10. 10 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 6 works

Who are the leading researchers in Peace and Human Rights Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Peace and Human Rights Education include Wolfgang K. Huber and Noam Chomsky.

  1. 1 Wolfgang K. Huber Germany 239k citations
  2. 2 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Peace and Human Rights Education?

The most cited paper in Peace and Human Rights Education is "Cultural Violence" (Johan Galtung, 1990), with 1,961 citations. Next come "Conflict, Decision and Dissonance" (1,355) and "Journal of Peace Research" (1,128).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Cultural Violence Johan Galtung · Journal of Peace Research Aug 1990 1,961
2 Conflict, Decision and Dissonance José Luís, Léon Festinger · Revue Française de Sociologie Oct 1965 1,355
3 Journal of Peace Research Nils Petter Gleditsch · Journal of Peace Research Feb 1989 1,128
4 A sense of self-perceived collective victimhood in intractable conflicts Daniel Bar‐Tal, Lily Chernyak‐Hai, Noa Schori et al. · International Review of the Red Cross Jun 2009 573
5 Twenty-Five Years of Peace Research: Ten Challenges and Some Responses Johan Galtung · Journal of Peace Research Jun 1985 452
All 102 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Peace and Human Rights Education research done?

The largest centres of Peace and Human Rights Education research in 2022-now are Hamburg (Germany), New York (United States), Bogotá (Colombia) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Hamburg and Bogotá.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 HamburgGermany 47 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 27 works
  3. 3 BogotáColombia 23 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 23 works
  5. 5 New DelhiIndia 18 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 16 works
  7. 7 PretoriaSouth Africa 15 works
  8. 8 YogyakartaIndonesia 13 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 13 works
  10. 10 BerlinGermany 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HamburgDE · 47.0 works17×
  2. BogotáCO · 23.2 works7.8×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Peace and Human Rights Education than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Peace and Human Rights Education?

Among universities, judged by research, University of South Africa score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of South AfricaSouth Africa 10.08.5%17.1×11 +385.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Peace and Human Rights Education, country by country

Is Peace and Human Rights Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 68% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Peace and Human Rights Education.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Peace and Human Rights Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0048% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Peace and Human Rights Education over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Peace and Human Rights Education10.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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