In this 9-minute video, Dr. Kasumagić-Kafedžić talks about the role education can play in peace building in and outside the classroom. She discusses the pro-active role educators can play in promoting productive, meaningful conversation about war, violence and peace, including the value of everyday strategies, such as deliberately using words and grammar to convey peace. “The way we ‘language’ peace influences the way we ‘do’ peace,” Kasumagić-Kafedžić says.
Larisa Kasumagić-Kafedžić is a 2003-04 Cornell University Hubert Humphrey Fellow Alumni and was a 2022/23 Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellow at Cornell University. She teaches at the University of Sarajevo’s Department of English Language and Literature in the Faculty of Philosophy. Her research interests are in the fields of intercultural education, peace pedagogy, language education, teacher development, reflective pedagogies and action research in language teaching classrooms. She is the founder and a president of the Peace Education Hub which was established at the University of Sarajevo in early 2020.