Resource How Family Relationships Predict the Effectiveness of a Psychosocial Group Intervention among War-Affected Children Taking a family systems approach, authors Raija-Leena Punamäki, Kirsi Peltonen, Marwan Diab, and Samir R Qouta find that child-parent attachment, parenting styles, and sibling relationships may mediate the perceived benefit of a group therapy program among a sample of children from 325 Palestinian families. They base their findings on family-type data and self-reported PTSD and mental health data.
Resource How Do We Know If Teachers Are Well? The Wellbeing Holistic Assessment for Teachers Tool Authors Fernanda Soares, Nina Menezes Cunha, and Paul Frisoli discuss how they created a new tool for measuring teachers’ emotion regulation, perceived stress, emotional exhaustion, and self-efficacy and adapted it to the Salvadoran context. A psychometric factor analysis of data from a sample of 1,659 teachers indicate evidence of the tool’s validity.
Resource JEiE Special Issue on Education and the War on Drugs Launch Marking the launch of JEiE’s latest publication, a groundbreaking special issue on education and the war on drugs, the panelists examined how education is not only a site of extensive collateral damage produced by the war on drugs but also how education policies and practices perpetuate and sustain this long-running, transnational, multifaceted war.
Event JEiE Special Issue on Education and the War on Drugs Launch Marking the launch of JEiE’s latest publication, a groundbreaking special issue on education and the war on drugs, the contributing authors, issue editors, and special guest discussants will examine how education is not only a site of extensive collateral damage produced by the war on drugs but also how education policies and practices perpetuate and sustain this long-running, transnational, multifaceted war.
Resource Editorial Note: Journal on Education in Emergencies: Volume 6, Number 1 In this editorial note, lead editors Maria Jose Bermeo and Diana Rodríguez-Gómez discuss the key themes and contributions offered in JEiE Volume 6, Number 1.
Resource Nota editorial: Journal on Education in Emergencies: Volumen 6, Número 1 En esta nota editorial, las editoras principales María José Bermeo y Diana Rodríguez-Gómez discuten sobre los temas clave y las aportaciones recogidas en la JEiE Volumen 6, Número 1.
Resource Protecting Children from Violence in the Time of COVID-19: Disruptions in prevention and response services As daily lives and communities are upended by COVID-19, concern is mounting that children’s exposure to violence may increase. Children with a history of abuse may find themselves even more vulnerable, both at home and online, and may experience more frequent and severe acts of violence. This publication documents what has happened to such services across the world.
Resource Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) This data provides georeferenced data on conflicts with a minimum of 25 battle-related deaths as well as linked data that may be relevant for understanding the conflict. Data include conflict parties, events and casualties, and distinguishes between three types of violence (state-based, non-state, and one-sided violence).
Resource Equipping and activating teachers in Honduras to address school-based violence and other crises Docentes por la Paz is an empowering and innovative five-module professional development program for public school teachers in Honduras that increases their capacity to provide quality education in contexts of crisis and conflict, and fosters safe learning environments within the education system.
Resource Reluctant representatives of the state: Teachers' perceptions of experienced violence (DR Congo) This qualitative research in South-Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo suggests that teachers link experienced violence to their role as state representatives. Thereby, the article sheds a critical light on approaches that frame teacher (re)deployment in conflict-affected contexts around normalcy and resilience.
