International rankings place Russia close to the bottom of indices for both peacefulness and democracy, despite opinion polls and surveys showing that the general public embraces democratic ideals. Education at all levels from school to lifelong learning plays a key role in establishing norms and aspirations for peace, security and democracy. Join speakers Yulia Nesterova and Daria Khanolaine for an interactive seminar including presentation and discussion of key insights and reflections from a research project that focussed on education, peace, and security in Russia.

This event is supported by CR&DALL and the British Association for Comparative International Education. It is open to everyone and free of charge.

The latest issue of RELA (Volume 15, Number 2) is now available. This open issue features six papers covering a diverse range of topics, including quality in adult education, numeracy education, and education within political parties, among others.

Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA) invites you to join the Eleventh session of Kerala Urban Dialogues, hosted by the Department of Architecture and Planning at NIT Calicut and Municipal Corporation of Kozhikode on the theme “Creative Economies and Creative Cities"

We are pleased to inform subscribers that our article "Learning from the past for the future: Signposts and landmark anniversaries in adult learning and education" has been published online in the International Review of Education. This article which Maria Slowey, Khau Phuoc and I have written is an an Introduction to the International Reseach in Education Special Issue on ALE Signposts, and was started with the late Chris Duke some time ago.