This essay provides a brief summary of three ways in which we can think about the role of education in conflict-affected societies. In broad terms they represent areas that have gained greater attention over the past decade in international development discourses, although their roots go back to at least the Second World War.

Sur le plan de l’éducation, le Forum mondial sur l’Education (2000) a eu pour effet d’amener (i) les gouvernements à avoir une autre approche des problèmes éducatifs, en inscrivant ceux-ci dans le cadre d’une politique nationale de réduction de la pauvreté

Summary of INEE Report from the Consultative Workshop on Education and Fragility in Sarajevo, March 2011.

INEE and UNESCO-IIEP, commissioned four country case studies, or analyses of situations of education and fragility - in Afghanistan (conducted by IIEP/UNESCO), Bosnia-Herzegovina (conducted by the University of Ulster), Cambodia, and Liberia - with the the intent to provide key data needed to better understand the relationship between education and fragility in a variety of contexts.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Education in Emergencies and Post-Crisis Transition (EEPCT) programme began in 2006 as a five-year, US$201 million-dollar partnership between UNICEF and the Government of the Netherlands, intended to support the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Education For All (EFA) movement.

Violent conflict is one of the greatest development challenges facing the international community. Beyond the immediate human suffering it causes, it is a source of poverty, inequality and economic stagnation.

Violent conflict is one of the greatest development challenges facing the international community. Beyond the immediate human suffering it causes, it is a source of poverty, inequality and economic stagnation.

El Informe establece un plan para proteger el derecho a la educación durante los conflictos, fortalecer las prestaciones  educativas para niños, jóvenes y adultos afectados por la lucha y reconstruir los sistemas de enseñanza en los países que salgan de una confrontación bélica.

Le Rapport mondial de suivi 2011 examine les conséquences désastreuses des conflits sur les objectifs de l’Éducation pour tous.

The Global Education Cluster commissioned a comprehensive lessons learned exercise in Pakistan, covering the period from the start of the floods in July until March. This report outlines the main findings from this review and highlights a number of recommendations for the current response in Pakistan as well as future emergency education responses. The key recommendations to come out of this lessons learned exercise are highlighted below.