Resilience, Language, and Social Cohesion

This list of resources on Resilience, Language, and Social Cohesion are part of the larger Learning for Peace project which produced dozens of briefs, reports, case studies, guides, and research products, and compiled many other relevant resources related to the link between education and peacebuilding.

Language policies has been the cause of conflict, exclusion and disintegration in many multilingual societies. Yet, it is also possible to make minority language policy the platform for dialogue and relationship-building between governments and ethnic minority stakeholders. This section provides a summary report of minority language policy dialogue platforms held in Myanmar and Malaysia. It also provides a case study about the extent to which education systems in Kenya strengthen or weaken resilience and youth engagement in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands.

15 March 2017 Report
Research Consortium on Education and Peacebuilding

Education and Social Cohesion in Pakistan

This is a summary of a country report on education and social cohesion in Pakistan and is a research output from the Research Consortium on Education and Peacebuilding, a co-funded partnership between UNICEF, the University of Amsterdam, University of Sussex and Ulster University and a range of national research partners in participating countries.

14 November 2016 Background Paper Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)

INEE Background Paper on Psychosocial Support and Social & Emotional Learning for Children & Youth

The purpose of this paper is to clarify relevant terminologies and approaches relating to psychosocial well-being and social and emotional learning (SEL) in education in crisis affected contexts, and to explore how psychosocial support (PSS) and social and emotional learning relate to one another.

29 June 2018 Manual/Handbook/Guide Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)

INEE Guidance Note on Psychosocial Support

The purpose of the INEE Guidance Note on Psychosocial Support is to clarify the importance of supporting the psychosocial wellbeing of children and youth, and to offer specific strategies for how to incorporate psychosocial support (PSS) into education responses.