Biography
Dr Tejendra Pherali is Professor of Education, Conflict and Peace at the Institute of Education, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom, where he leads research and teaching in the area of Education, Conflict and Peacebuilding. Professor Pherali developed a pioneering MA in Conflict, Emergencies and Peace at UCL, which provides advanced academic training to postgraduate students from around the globe. Currently, he co-directs the Education Research in Conflict and Crisis (ERICC) Programme, a global research and learning partnership that strives to transform education policy and practice in conflict and protracted crises around the world through building a global hub for rigorous, context-relevant and actionable evidence base.Professor Pherali is the former Chair of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE). He is the founding editor of Education and Conflict Review, an open access peer-reviewed journal, author of Conflict, Education and Peace in Nepal (Bloomsbury, 2022) and co-author of Laboratories of Learning: Social Movements, Education and Knowledge-Making in the Global South (Pluto Press, 2024). He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom in 2023 and is a current Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
Keynote Presentation (2025) | Politics of Education in Conflict and Protracted-Crisis Situations
