Drawing from ethnographic research on teachers in post-earthquake Indonesia, Christopher Henderson relates how global-level actors often miss the opportunity to engage meaningfully with teachers’ agency, self-concept, and resilience in humanitarian response guidance and policymaking.

Katrina Barnes et al. offer lessons from a participatory research initiative conducted with refugees in Rwanda and Pakistan, including how to navigate youth researchers’ positionality, training, and remuneration, and how to accommodate participants’ varying levels of research skills.

Jennifer Flemming et al. apply a resilience framework to the pandemic response in Colombia, Georgia, Lebanon, Nigeria, and Zambia to identify the practices, structures, and resource flows these systems leveraged to absorb, adapt, or transform the shock to their education systems from COVID-19.

HaEun Kim, Mirco Stella, and Kassahun Hiticha reflect on the challenges COVID-19 created for the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees project and the project’s efforts to support learning continuity, including allowing students, mentors, and instructors to collaborate on creative solutions.

Kate Sykes outlines the TEAM Girl Malawi model for providing inclusive distance education to students living in extreme poverty, students with disabilities, and girls who are at risk of early marriage. It includes paper-based delivery, resilience and SEL skills, and in-person support from teachers.

Ana María Restrepo-Sáenz and Emmanuel Neisa Chateauneuf describe the rollout and scaling during COVID-19 of La Aldea, a learner-centered, culturally relevant multimedia education initiative for out-of-school children, internally displaced children, and refugee populations in Colombia.

In her review of Meaningless Citizenship, Samaya Mansour describes how Sally Wesley Bonet weaves the themes of refugee resettlement, citizenship, belonging, and state resettlement policies into her narrative on the education and workforce journeys of four Iraqi families resettling in the US

Orelia Jonathan reminds JEiE readers of the complex relationship between education and peacebuilding as she reflects on S. Garnett Russell’s investigation in Becoming Rwandan of the Rwandan government’s efforts to create a cohesive national identity after the 1994 genocide.

In her review of Teaching Peace and Conflict, Myuri Komagiri engages with Vanner, Akseer, and Kovinthan Levi’s Intersecting Roles of Education in Conflict framework. Komaragiri stresses the need to prioritize the education-as-transformer role for education to contribute effectively to peacebuilding.

In her review of Youth-Led Social Movements and Peacebuilding in Africa, Deanna Pittman extends volume editor Ibrahim Bangura’s call to action to EiE audiences: resist the suppression of youth voices and give young activists a platform to be agents of social, economic, and political change.