Education and the Mitigation of Conflict and Fragility
This paper examines how assistance to the education sector in the BRIDGE states of Upper Nile, Blue Nile, South Kordofan and Abyei, can enhance access to quality basic education for the poor and vulnerable, at the same time improving governance and thereby mitigating the risks of fragility, and increasing the opportunities of lasting peace and social cohesion. As one of the most visible and essential state services and one that affects all people, being a universal basic right for citizens, education has an important symbolic value in (re-)establishing the legitimacy of the state and mitigating fragility.