Education and Resilience in Crisis: Challenges & Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa (Book launch)

A new book – Education and Resilience in Crisis: Challenges & Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa (Bristol University Press) – provides an important lens for understanding how interlocking humanitarian crises caused by armed conflict, natural disasters, forced displacement, and more recently a global health pandemic have adversely impacted teaching and learning. 

This book launch brought together evidence from multiple, diverse research-practice partnerships in seven countries — the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Niger, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda — all of which were part of the European Union’s Building Resilience in Crisis through Education (BRiCE) initiative. The contributors highlighted key academic, policy, and practice findings on education in crisis contexts and consider our capacity to develop just and resilient education systems.

Panelists

• Mary Mendenhall, Associate Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
• Gauthier Marchais, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
• Neil Boothby, Professor and Director of the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child at the University of Notre Dame
• Yusuf Sayed, Professor of Education, University of Cambridge
• Samuel Matabishi, Institut Superieur Pedagogique de Bukavu
• Daniel Shephard, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
• Danielle Falk, Education Researcher, International Rescue Committee
• Okello Francis Amodo, Refugee Law Project, School of Law, Makerere University (formerly with AVSI Uganda during the BRiCE project)