Resources
This page includes a curated list of resources about attacks on education, education in emergencies, and related topics from various education, development, humanitarian, and human rights organizations, as well as from academic researchers. It is intended to be a resource bank of advocacy, research, and response articles, reports, books, websites, datasets, and other relevant materials.
Report
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A global study of threatened or actual use of force against students, education personnel, schools, and universities in 2022 and 2023.
Marston, Jerome; Pearce, Felicity; et al.
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2024
GCPEA
Report
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Assessment of the damage to schools and education facilities between late 2023 and early 2024 in Gaza, Occupied Palestinian Territory.
2024
Education Cluster - Occupied Palestinian Territory
Report
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This report covers violations to the right to education, including attacks on schools and their military use, in the context of hostilities between Egyptian government forces and Islamic extremist armed groups in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.
2024
Sinai Foundation for Human Rights
Report
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Each year, non-state armed groups carry out attacks on schools and universities, and their students and staff, in conflicts around the world. This scoping paper provides background on the topic and explores global trends in non-state armed group attacks on education. The motivations and factors associated with these groups attacking, or in some cases safeguarding, education are considered.
Marston, Jerome; Tsolakis, Marika
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2023
GCPEA
Report
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This report documents the damage and destruction of schools and kindergartens in four Ukrainian regions during the first months of the fighting after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
2023
Human Rights Watch
Report
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This report provides an overview and analysis of attacks on education in Ukraine between February and December 2022. Key findings include the prevalence of explosive weapons used in attacks, geographic trajectory of attacks, and the high number of attacks on schools compared to other forms of attacks on education.
Marston, Jerome; Tsolakis, Marika
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2023
GCPEA
Report
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A global study of threats or deliberate use of force against
students, teachers, academics, education trade union members
and government officials, aid workers and other education staff,
and against schools, universities and other education
institutions, carried out for political, military, ideological,
sectarian, ethnic or religious reasons in 2019-2021.
Various Contributors
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2022
GCPEA
Report
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A global study of threats or deliberate use of force against
students, teachers, academics, education trade union members
and government officials, aid workers and other education staff,
and against schools, universities and other education
institutions, carried out for political, military, ideological,
sectarian, ethnic or religious reasons in 2017-2019.
Various Contributors
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2020
GCPEA
Book
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This Handbook is a practical and comprehensive guide to the relevant provisions of international law that protect education in situations of insecurity and armed conflict.
British Institute of International and Comparative Law
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2020
British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Education Above All
Report
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The reports present the key findings of the multi-country study on the impact of attacks on education on women and girls, while focusing on the types and causes of abuse most typically committed against female students in the context of attacks on education, and the long-term consequences that female students may face as a result of such attacks.
Cartner, Holly
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2019
GCPEA
Report
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This report summarizes discussions at a workshop entitled “The role of humanitarian actors in safeguarding
access to education”, that aimed to improve humanitarian support for the continuity of education in areas affected by armed
conflict and violence, in line with the principles of neutrality, impartiality and independence, and in both the
short and long term.
2019
Education Above All, International Committee of the Red Cross
Report
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A global study of threats or deliberate use of force against
students, teachers, academics, education trade union members
and government officials, aid workers and other education staff,
and against schools, universities and other education
institutions, carried out for political, military, ideological,
sectarian, ethnic or religious reasons in 2013-2017.
Various Contributors
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2018
GCPEA
Paper
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The Journal on Education in Emergencies aims to publish groundbreaking and outstanding scholarly and practitioner work on education in emergencies (EiE).
Burde, Dana (Ed.)
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2018
Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies
Paper
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The paper seeks to assess the gaps and challenges in relation to accountability for education-related violations of international law.
Aloyo, Eamon; Connolly, David; Coster van Voorhout, Jill; Klanduch, Peter; Malik, Maleiha
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2018
Education Above All
Paper
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The Journal on Education in Emergencies aims to publish groundbreaking and outstanding scholarly and practitioner work on education in emergencies (EiE).
Burde, Dana (Ed.)
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2017
Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies
Report
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This report covers Columbia University's in-depth study in Mogadishu, Somalia aiming to assess the current roles and capacities of the various education and protection actors for monitoring and reporting attacks on education in the capital.
Bennouna, Cyril; Boothby, Neil; Richard, Kinyera; Roberts, Leslie
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2015
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Education Above All
Report
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This report sheds further light on Columbia University's in-depth studies of attacks on education in South Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Mogadishu, Somalia in an attempt to fill information gaps
and contribute to the development of improved methodologies for monitoring and responding to such attacks.
Bennouna, Cyril; Boothby, Neil; Richard, Kinyera; Roberts, Leslie
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2015
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Education Above All
Report
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This paper is intended to provide a preliminary look at a number of
innovations in the field of humanitarian information and communication
technology and their possible applications to the monitoring and
reporting of attacks on education.
Kalista, Jane
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2015
Education Above All
Report
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A report summarizing presentations and discussions during the PEIC International Seminar ‘Attacks on Education: Addressing the Data Challenge’ (June 2015), that aimed to advance understanding and share knowledge about the challenges facing data collection and analysis related to attacks on education and how these challenges might be addressed
Kalista, Jane
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2015
Education Above All
Report
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The Safe Schools Declaration is an inter-governmental political instrument that outlines a set of commitments to strengthen the protection of education from attack and restrict use of schools and universities for military purposes.
2015
Report
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This study will review the development and evolution of the education and fragility agenda and examine how education in fragile contexts and as an intervention to interrupt those fragility dynamics presents a complex problem situated within a complex system for which our traditional approaches are not adequate.
Tebbe, Kirsten
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2015
Education Above All
Report
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A global study of threats or deliberate use of force against
students, teachers, academics, education trade union members
and government officials, aid workers and other education staff,
and against schools, universities and other education
institutions, carried out for political, military, ideological,
sectarian, ethnic or religious reasons in 2009-2013.
Various Contributors
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2014
GCPEA
Report
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A series of reports sets out to quantify the impact of armed conflict on education and seeks to arrive at estimates of the order of magnitude of the costs of conflict to education: both in terms of the human cost, represented by the number of Out of School Children, and the financial cost in terms of physical damage done to education structures and through loss of human capital.
Jones, Amir; Naylor, Ruth
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2014
CfBT Education Trust, Education Above All
Report
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This report covers Columbia University's in-depth study in South Kivu province, DRC aiming to to assess the current roles and capacities of the various education and protection actors for monitoring and reporting attacks on education.
Bennouna, Cyril; Boothby, Neil; Nshombo, Marius; Richard, Kinyera; Roberts, Leslie
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2014
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Education Above All
Guidelines
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The Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use of Schools and Universities
The Guidelines urge parties to armed conflict (both state armed forces and non-state armed groups) not to use schools and universities for any purpose in support of the military effort, with an aim to protect against the risk of armed forces and groups converting schools and universities into military objectives by way of military use and exposing them to the potentially devastating consequences of attack.
2014
Book
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This book explores the practical advice and guidelines that help support learning to live together, conflict transformation and peace at the individual, group and community levels.
Sinclair, Margaret (Ed.)
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2013
Education Above All
Book
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The study seeks to address the lack of attention paid to reparations for violations of international law during times of insecurity and armed conflict that affect education.
Capone, Francesca; Fairgrieve, Duncan; Hausler, Kristin; McCarthy, Conor
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2013
Education Above All
Paper
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The paper offers technical planning advice for high-level policy makers in ministries of education and donors in situations of conflict, recovering from conflict, or at risk of it, to share how education policies may contribute to continuing tensions and conflict, or help reduce these tensions.
Sigsgaard, Morten
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2012
Education Above All
Book
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The book examines the contribution that education for local, national and global citizenship and associated themes can make, even in countries where teacher training and classroom resources are limited.
Various Authors
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2012
Education Above All
Paper
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The paper examines the types of programmatic interventions, and the characteristics of successful programs addressing the problem of former child soldiers.
Burde, Dana; Guven, Ozen; Kapit-Spitalny, Amy
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2010
Education Above All
Report
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This guide looks at how to make education in emergencies more accessible for everyone, particularly those often excluded from education.
Pinnock, Helen
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2009
INEE
Report
This policy note highlights the impact of explosive weapons on children through the lens of the United Nations' Children and Armed Conflict agenda.
Ellis, Bethany
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2024
Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict
Guidelines
This guidance introduces a conceptual framework for risk identification and reduction in contexts with attacks on education.
Cartner, Holly
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2023
GCPEA
Report
This report documents and analyzes the swift uptick in and spread of attacks on education in Myanmar after February 2021. Key findings include the prevalence of explosive weapons used in attacks and the connection between the military use of educational facilities and subsequent attacks from rival forces or groups.
Various Contributors
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2022
GCPEA
Report
This case study highlights some of the effects of violence on education in Palestine between
January 2019 and September 2021, based on an analysis of Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt)
Education Cluster data.
2022
GCPEA
Report
This report by GCPEA describes the impact of the implementation of the Safe Schools Declaration in various countries.
2022
GCPEA
Report
A composition of international datasets on violence in education.
Humanitarian Data Center
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2022
Education Above All, OCHA
Report
This policy brief calls attention to the experiences of girls and young women affected by attacks on education. For adolescent girls in particular, the longer-term impacts of attacks can be devastating.
2021
Plan International
Case study
This case study uses GCPEA’s new Toolkit for Collecting and Analyzing Data on Attacks on Education to explore the effects of explosive weapons on education in Afghanistan, highlighting both shorter-and longer-term impacts.
2021
GCPEA
Guidelines
The Toolkit addresses the gaps in data collection, promotes inter-sectoral collaboration on data collection, analysis, and reporting, and strengthens and harmonizes definitions and concepts related to attacks on education.
2021
GCPEA
Report
This report collects recent and historic examples of laws, court decisions, military orders, policies, and practice by governments, armed forces, non-state armed groups, and courts aimed at protecting schools and universities from use for military purposes.
Sheppard, Bede
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2021
GCPEA
Report
This report documents attacks on students, education professionals, and schools allegedly carried out by armed Islamist groups in six regions of Burkina Faso between 2017 and 2020.
2020
Human Rights Watch
Report
This document summarises the findings of the report Protecting Children in Armed Conflict, led by Shaheed Fatima QC (published in 2018 by Hart/ Bloomsbury), and produced for the Inquiry on Protecting Children in Conflict, chaired by Gordon Brown.
Fatima, Shaheed
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2020
Report
The GCPEA 2020-24 Strategy Summary outlines the GCPEA's over-arching goal of universal endorsement and implementation of the Safe Schools Declaration, as well as their strategic goals to protect education from attack moving forward.
2020
GCPEA
Report
This pamphlet details the mission of GCPEA and the impact it has had on protecting education from attack from 2010-2020.
2020
GCPEA
Report
This report describes the rising attacks on education in Central Sahel and provides recommendations for preventing, mitigating, and responding to them.
2020
GCPEA
Report
This report documents abuses that women and girls experienced when
schools were attacked in the Kasais, focusing specifically on Kasai Central
province, where the conflict originated and where the largest number of
schools were attacked.
Cartner, Holly
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2019
GCPEA
Book
This document aims to provide an overview of how the education sector as a whole can leverage its transformational power to support and encourage young people to be positive and constructive members of society, while also mitigating challenges to the rule of law.
2019
UNESCO
Report
This issue examines the deadly impact of protracted armed conflict on vulnerable children and young people in Afghanistan and addresses the enormous obstacles to providing them with the support and services they urgently need.
2019
UNICEF
Article
This Guide aims to be a resource for civil society organizations (CSO) who are interested in finding out more about the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (the Committee).
Sheahan, Frances
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2019
Plan International, Save The Children
