Attacks on Education: addressing the data challenge

The following report summarizes presentations and discussions during the PEIC International Seminar ‘Attacks on Education: Addressing the Data Challenge’, held on 15-16 June 2015 in Doha, Qatar. The seminar aimed to advance understanding and share knowledge about the challenges facing data collection and analysis related to attacks on education and how these challenges might be addressed. Implications for a specific PEIC initiative to develop a Global Data Service, tasked with driving a process of collection, analysis and dissemination of information for use by a wider body of organizations, were also considered throughout the seminar. Bringing together multiple perspectives on the issue, the event provided a forum where practitioners and researchers from the fields of education, child protection, public health, forensic psychology and criminology were able to exchange their expertise and experience in data collection and analysis, and generate conclusions and recommendations to help guide the way forward, not only for PEIC but also for others.