A. Noam Chomsky Global Connections Awards
Winner: Shining Star Research Award (2024)
Kevin Kester is Associate Professor of Comparative International Education and Peace/Development Studies, and Director of the Education, Conflict and Peace Lab, at Seoul National University, South Korea. He is cross-appointed to the Interdisciplinary MA/PhD Program in Global Education Cooperation in the Department of Education; Interdisciplinary MA Program in Peace and Unification Studies in the College of Social Sciences; and the MA Program in International Development in the Graduate School of International Studies. He is additionally Honorary Professor to the University of Hargeisa’s Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies in Somaliland, and a frequent consultant to UNESCO’s Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding in Seoul. He holds a PhD in Education and International Development from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. His research interests lie in the sociology and politics of education with a focus on the intersectional fields of comparative education, education and conflict, peace education, and global citizenship education. His most recent books/special issues are the Common Curriculum Guide for Peace Education in Northeast Asia (2023, UNESCO-APCEIU), Rethinking ‘Asia as Method’ in Education Research: Toward Ontologies and Epistemologies of Difference (2023, Springer), and The United Nations and Higher Education: Peacebuilding, Social Justice and Global Cooperation for the 21st Century (2020, IAP). More on his background can be found here: https://kevinkester.weebly.com/