Does more education lead to less political violence, and may education thus be a tool for peace? This article provides the first systematic review of the existing quantitative literature on education and political violence. Looking at arguments pertaining to levels, expansion, inequality, and content of education, we identify 42 quantitative studies from the time period 1996 to 2016 that test the relationship between various measures of education and political violence. An emerging scholarly consensus seems to be that education has a general pacifying effect. However, this general conclusion is challenged by recent evidence showing above-average levels of education among terrorists and genocide perpetrators. This, as well as other findings, underscore that the relationship between education and political violence is complex and multidimensional, depending on type of political violence, mediating factors, and level of analysis. We conclude with policy implications from our findings and discuss directions for future analysis.

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教育会导致安抚吗？教育和政治暴力统计研究的系统回顾

更多的教育是否会导致更少的政治暴力，从而教育可以成为和平的工具吗？本文首次系统地回顾了现有关于教育和政治暴力的定量文献。查看与教育水平、扩张、不平等和内容有关的论点，我们确定了 1996 年至 2016 年期间的 42 项定量研究，这些研究测试了各种教育措施与政治暴力之间的关系。一个新兴的学术共识似乎是教育具有普遍的安抚作用。然而，最近的证据表明，恐怖分子和种族灭绝肇事者的教育水平高于平均水平，这一普遍结论受到了挑战。这一点以及其他调查结果都强调教育与政治暴力之间的关系是复杂和多方面的，取决于政治暴力的类型、调解因素和分析水平。我们总结了我们发现的政策含义，并讨论了未来分析的方向。