The Journey of Life (JOL) series helps communities to support both caregivers and children in need. With individual and community resources often stretched to the breaking point by HIV and AIDS, war, violence and natural disasters, people need the information and skills to be able to plan a course of action.

This research sought to understand the role of education in peacebuilding in post-conflict states.

This literature review is the first output of a one-year DFID-funded research programme exploring the links between service delivery in education, health, sanitation and water, and wider processes of state-building and peace-building in fragile and conflict-affected states.

Afin d’informer les décideurs à un moment crucial après la réélection en janvier 2011 du Président François Bozizé à la tête de la République centrafricaine (RCA), les ONG Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict (Watchlist) et IDMC (Observatoire des situations de déplacement interne) ont mutualisé leurs forces pour effectuer une mission de terrain de quatre semaines en RCA afin de faire des recherches et de rédiger un rapport sur la situation des enfants touchés par le conflit armé.

Guía para planificar, ejecutar y evaluar los ejercicios relativos a simulacros en escuelas, centros de formación, capacitación y en general centros educativos, cuya comunidad educativa podría enfrentarse a alguna situación de desastre.

This brief report presents key points resulting from a half-day Workshop on Cross-sectoral Approaches to Mitigating Conflict and Fragility Using the Case of South Sudan, that was held in conjunction with the Working Group on Education and Fragility biannual meeting in Washington, DC on 21 March 2011.

The report attempts to consider the impact of education on fragility; this will be accomplished through a review of the drivers and dynamics of fragility in Cambodia and the interaction of education in Cambodia with these drivers and dynamics.

This chapter explains what is meant by conflict sensitivity, who needs to have it, and when, how to place conflict sensitivity within development, humanitarian assistance and peacebuilding, and current debates within these fields.

This document discusses how, given the potential increase in conflicts and tensions as a result of climate change and rapidly declining resources, there is a growing sense of urgency among the international community to engage in strategies that mitigate conflict and promote peace.

There is a widespread recognition that the nature of humanitarian emergencies is changing. Although catastrophic, sudden-onset events like tropical storms, earthquakes and tsunamis will continue to happen, and will require rapid and well coordinated humanitarian interventions, many more humanitarian crises emerge over time based on a combination of complex and interrelated circumstances.