DEPA (Decolonising Peace Education in Africa) webinar series aims to promote dialogue on diverse theoretical, conceptual, and methodological perspectives within Africa. Our next speaker is Dr Eliseo Huesca, Jr.

Tuesday 8 February, 11:00AM UK time & 1pm South Africa and Zimbabwe time, 12PM Nigeria time, 2pm Uganda time.

This webinar series explores what other knowledges and values could be used to embed and inform peace education. It thus aims to outline a framework for a decolonised peace education. We will hear from academics, activists and educationalists globally as they debate what is the history of coloniality in different countries and how does this influence peace and conflict as well as its’ deployment in education. It will multiply and amplify voices, especially of young scholars and will share knowledges around local meanings, practices and values of peace. The seminars will engage scholars working in cognate areas such as gender and education for peace, young people’s engagement and leadership and ethical bases for peace.

Utilizing the case of UN Resolutions 1325 (Women, Peace, and Security) and 2250 (Youth, Peace, and Security), Dr Eliseo Huesca Jr's talk will illuminate the transformative influences of UN's normative logics in peace-security-development nexus in fragile and transitional environments; the differentiated responses on the global-local interfaces; and political agencies of local stakeholders.

Researchers on global politics and international development offer insightful analyses on how transnational norms shape and reconfigure domestic institutions, policies, practices, and collective belief systems. Within this body of literature, however, the situated dynamics of the global-local encounter in norm-receiving communities are considerably overlooked. By building on the 'local turn' of norm translation studies, this talk interrogates how globally-circulating norms have reconstructed, or otherwise, the normative orders in transitioning Muslim Mindanao.

Eliseo Huesca, Jr. is an Associate Professor at Davao del Norte State College. He was with Davao Oriental State University for 18 years and served as the Dean of the Institute of Business & Public Affairs before he transferred to DNSC. He received his PhD in Asian Studies (by Research) from University of Brunei Darussalam as Graduate Research Scholar. He also earned his MA in Public Administration from International Christian University, Japan as a JDS Fellow. He also won short term scholarships and fellowships from National University of Singapore, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and United Nations University, Tokyo. His research interests broadly sit on the intersections of public policy, peace and security, and development.