Journal on Education in Emergencies: Volume 2, Number 1

This issue features articles that analyze educational programs for marginalized and vulnerable populations living in a wide range of circumstances of crisis or conflict, and that examine resilience as a response to these emergency settings.

We are pleased to announce the second issue of the Journal on Education in Emergencies (JEiE). This issue features articles that analyze educational programs for marginalized and vulnerable populations living in a wide range of circumstances of crisis or conflict, and that examine resilience as a response to these emergency settings.

This article considers the impact of CBE in the voices of Afghanistan’s educational and community stakeholders, gained through interviews and observations with parents, teachers, students, educational officers, and school shuras (councils) across eight communities in two provinces.

Using stratified survey data and complementary qualitative interview data, this study explores why parents in Uruzgan, Afghanistan, choose to send their boys and girls to school, what prevents them from doing so, and what kinds of normative tensions emerge during this process.

This research article examines how LGBTQIA students on college campuses in Delhi, India, handle discrimination in the aftermath of the Supreme Court of India’s ruling on December 11, 2013, that recriminalized homosexuality in India. In this paper, we identify which strategies are most likely to lead to positive, long-lasting change.

This field note explores a little-known footnote in the history of the U.S. military occupation in Iraq. In mid-2007 the author documented the beginnings of a school designed and operated by the U.S. military in Iraq. Every aspect of this school was conditioned by its singular context: to educate Iraqi juveniles captured in war.

This paper presents lessons learned from the implementation of the Better Learning Program, a school-based response in Gaza that combined psychosocial and trauma-focused approaches, and discusses how international guidelines were incorporated.

Anthropologist Marc Sommers has spent decades thinking and writing about youth in Africa, frequently while working as a consultant for government and NGO clients. In The Outcast Majority, Marc Sommers has written a career-summarizing book. The book details the vast gap between outcast youth in war-affected Africa and the international development enterprise.

In Arab Dawn, Bessma Momani offers a nuanced picture of the everyday lives of young people throughout the Arab Middle East. She argues that there are important fundamental differences between today’s Arab youth and those of prior generations, and that young people will be driving change in the region.

In the introduction to her book, Education and Empowered Citizenship in Mali, Jaimie Bleck draws on Western political science theories and a rich bibliography as she describes the evolution of education in Mali.