Kevin Kester
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Hi, I'm Kevin Kester. Associate Professor of
Comparative International Education and Peace/Development Studies
at
Seoul National University
(서울대학교) and director of the Education, Conflict and Peace Lab. I research educational responses to peace, conflict and development in local and global contexts. My most recent books are
The United Nations and Higher Education: Peacebuilding, Social Justice and Global Cooperation for the 21st Century
and
Common Curriculum Guide for Peace Education in Northeast Asia
.
I completed my PhD and postdoc at the University of Cambridge. Prior to moving to Seoul National University, I was Director of Studies for Education at
Queens' College
and
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
. I serve in various leadership capacities with the
Comparative and International Education Society
,
Korean Comparative Education Society
, and
Korean Educational Research Association
.
My current research focuses on higher education peacebuilding in conflict-affected contexts, funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea and the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies. A recent talk related to this work is online here:
Healing the Scars of War: Teaching for Peace through Higher Education in Divided and Conflict-Affected Contexts
, and I am currently Editing a new Special Issue on
Conflict, Peace and Teaching in Higher Education
for the journal
Teaching in Higher Education
, to be published in 2026. I invite submissions for the Special Issue here:
https://forms.gle/6zc31EJmrhvwNeD48
.
(Books / Special Issues)
Researchgate
LinkedIn
Academia.edu
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