Promoting peace education via voluntary encounters

Cambridge Journal of Education

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 505-521

  Yablon, Yaacov Boaz ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Contact hypothesis; Encounters; Intergroup relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849122128     PISSN: 0305764X     EISSN: 14693577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03057640903352432     Document Type: Article

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