Portland State University PDXScholar Dissertations and Theses Dissertations and Theses 1-18-2018 Co-Creating Spaces of Critical Hope through the Use of a Psychosocial Peace Building Education Course in Higher Education in Protracted Refugee Context: Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya Staci BokHee Martin Portland State University Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds Part of the Curriculum and Instruction Commons, and the Educational Leadership Commons Recommended Citation Martin, Staci BokHee, "Co-Creating Spaces of Critical Hope through the Use of a Psychosocial Peace Building Education Course in Higher Education in Protracted Refugee Context: Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya" (2018). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 4236. 10.15760/etd.6120 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Co-Creating Spaces of Critical Hope through the Use of a Psychosocial Peace Building Education Course in Higher Education in Protracted Refugee Context: Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya by Staci BokHee Martin A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership: Curriculum and Instruction Dissertation Committee: Dannelle D. Stevens, Chair Micki M. Caskey Samuel Henry Matthew Carlson Portland State University 2018 © 2018 Staci BokHee Martin CO-CREATING SPACES OF CRITICAL HOPE i Abstract An unprecedented 65.6 million persons are forcibly displaced (e.g., refugees, asylum- seekers, IDPs). Half are youth. Hope is often the feeling that sustains youth through intolerable conditions.