Article on Conflict and Education,Courtesy-INEE

REPORT: Where Peace Begins - Education's Role in Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding
(Save the Children)
Most people recognise instinctively the role of education in preventing conflict and in building peace. Most people also understand the dangers inherent in the abuse of education systems. To explore these issues more deeply and to spark increased interest and discussion, Save the Children has released a report entitled Where Peace Begins: Education's Role in Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding as part of its Rewrite the Future campaign. Part of the purpose of this report is to set out - on the basis of Save the Children's experience - what they believe to be the impact of conflict on children and on their education. The report also sets out Save the Children's understanding of how education can make conflicts worse and how education - the right sort of education - can support peace. However, describing how the right sort of quality education can lead to peace and how the wrong sort can make conflict worse will only get us so far. The report also reflects on finding ways of making quality education a reality in conflict-affected fragile states around the world. According to the report, this is a challenge to us all, to ensure good education before, during and after conflicts, and when peace settlements are negotiated: "Peace begins in the minds of children. But how do we make sure children receive the quality education that will help them build peace?"To access the full report, please click here
To learn more about the peace education component of the Rewrite the Future campaign, please click here
ARTICLE: Empower or Control? Education in Emergencies and Global Governance
(Dana Burde, CICE Journal)
Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE) is an international online, open access journal inviting diverse opinions of academics, practitioners and students, based at Teachers College, Columbia University. Last year's issue, "Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crises, and Early Reconstruction: Issues and Debates on Quality, Impact, and Accountability" (Vol. 9, No. 2) was shared with INEE members over the listserv. We would now like to draw your attention to Dana Burde's response to that issue, entitled "Empower or control? Education in emergencies and global governance." In this paper, Burde engages with the four articles in the issue, reflecting on whether programmes that provide education in emergencies empower those whom they are intended to assist, or if they coerce and control. She also explores how INEE is portrayed within the lively discussion that has been sparked about education in emergencies and the role INEE can play in empowering and/or controlling local communities from crisis-affected areas. Burde is a visiting assistant professor at New York University, and her research and teaching focus on education in emergencies, NGOs, social movements, and on education as a tool for social reconstruction in post-conflict regions.To access Dana Burde's paper, please click here. To access the CICE journal, please click here.