DECIDES (Developing Ethical Civic Actors in Divided Societies): A study of civic development in Northern Ireland, South Africa and the United States.
PI and Project Director: Sarah Warshauer Freedman
Co Project Director: Karen Murphy, International Director, Facing History and Ourselves
Funded by the Spencer Foundation
How do varied legacies of conflict and division impede or enhance how adolescents develop as citizens? How do these legacies affect their understanding of what citizenship means and entails (locally, nationally and globally), their thinking about civic action, and the actions they take or plan to take?