Strong political leadership is decisive in turning a country's education system around. Anna Obura's study traces the remarkable efforts in Rwanda to reconstruct the national education system after the 1994 genocide, and to right the wrongs of long decades of discrimination, exclusion and divisiveness practised in schools.

The present paper is an attempt to understand the complex issues involved in rebuilding educational systems in post-conflict settings and to draw a framework for intervention programmes aimed at supporting educational reconstruction efforts.

This paper seeks to summarise thinking on a number of the challenges that have been encountered by conflict resolution evaluators in the hopes of enhancing evaluation practice and therefore its potential contribution to this field.

This study seeks to develop a clearer understanding of one particular dimension of contemporary ethnic conflict: the constructive and destructive impacts of education – the two faces of education.

In the new vision of world development that is beginning to emerge in the 1990s, knowledge, human ingenuity, imagination and goodwill are the only resources that finally matter.

In the study, the expert proposes the elements of a comprehensive agenda for action by Member States and the international community to improve the protection and care of children in conflict situations, and to prevent these conflicts from occurring.

The Book of Needs Volume II is UNESCO's second account of postwar educational losses and needs in countries which have suffered war.

The Book of Needs Volume I (1947) is UNESCO's first account of post-war educational and cultural losses and needs in 15 countries affected by World War II.