Biography
Tejendra Pherali is a Professor of Education, Conflict and Peace at University College London (UCL), United Kingdom. He developed the pioneering MA programme in Conflict, Emergencies and Peace at UCL, which provides advanced academic training to postgraduate students from around the globe. Currently, he co-directs the university’s Education Research in Conflict and Crisis (ERICC), a global research and learning partnership that strives to transform education policy and practise in conflict and protracted crisis around the world, through building a global hub for rigorous, context-relevant, and actionable evidence base. Professor Pherali served as the Chair of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE), and the Chair of the Editorial Board of Compare Journal. He is also the founding Editor of Education and Conflict Review, an open access peer-reviewed journal, and the 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). Professor Pherali is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom.
Keynote Presentation (2025) | Politics of Education in Conflict and Protracted-Crisis Situations
