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
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
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 report describes the rising attacks on education in Central Sahel and provides recommendations for preventing, mitigating, and responding to them.
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 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
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
Report
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
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
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 document offers answers to common questions regarding the Safe Schools Declaration.
2019
GCPEA
Article
This article describes the learning crisis that the world is currently facing and the necessity for education reform in order to build human capital.
2019
The World Bank
Report
This report details the impact that the armed conflict in Yemen has had on its education system and includes recommendations to ensure that students, education personnel, schools and universities in
Yemen remain safe and secure.
2019
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
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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2019
GCPEA
Report
This report documents attacks, abuses, and abductions that women and girls experienced in Nigeria, focusing specifically on Boko Haram and
the long-lasting impacts of their attacks.
Cartner, Holly
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2018
GCPEA
Book
This chapter of the book "International Law", describes the nuances and applications of 'soft law'.
Boyle, Alan
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2018
Report
The following is a set of recommendations for states to consider when seeking to implement each commitment within the Safe Schools Declaration in a way that will better protect women and girls.
2018
GCPEA
Report
This report explores the particular aspects of state responsibility for human rights violations committed by armed non-state actors (ANSAs) in its territory.
Eatwell, Tatyana
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2018
Geneva Call
Book
This book examines and analyses the concept, the process, and the consequences of conflict internationalization from the perspective of international law.
Mačák, Kubo
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2018
Article
The purpose of this document is to outline how and to what extent the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will engage in operations and policy in education.
2018
ICRC
Report
The 2019 GEM Report continues its assessment of progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) on education and its ten targets, specifically focusing this year on the implications of different types of migration and displacement for education systems but also the impact that reforming education curricula and approaches to pedagogy and teacher preparation can have on addressing the challenges and opportunities posed by migration and displacement.
Global Education Monitoring Report Team
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2018
UNESCO
Article
This article details the ICRC's position on the Safe Schools Declaration and the Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict.
2018
ICRC
Report
This briefing paper addresses the progress that Afghanistan had made since 2001 on increasing access to education for Afghani children, and how due to ongoing conflict, increasing insecurity and attacks on education, there has been a reversal in this progress since 2018.
2018
GCPEA
Report
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
|
2018
GCPEA
Book
This book explains the principles of international law and exposes the debates and challenges that underlie it.
Evans, Malcom
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2018
Report
This Framework for Action seeks to provide governments with a non-exhaustive list of suggestions, recommendations, and examples that can assist them as they determine the appropriate way to implement the
commitments made through endorsement of the Safe Schools Declaration.
2017
GCPEA
Guidelines
This document serves as a technical guide for ministries of education, local education officials, communities, NGOs, and international agencies
seeking to develop localized templates on actions that school-based actors can take to protect schools, students, and teachers from attack.
Keenan, Caroline
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2017
GCPEA
Book
This book takes on the complex issues and controversies surrounding the history, theory, and practice of customary international law as it reexamines customary law's increasingly important role in world affairs.
Lepard, Brian
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2017
Report
Armed Non-State Actors Share Their Policies and Practice with Regards to Education in Armed Conflict
A report on Geneva Call's findings on how to work with ANSAs to protect children and education from conflict.
2017
Geneva Call
Book
This study aims to clarify when and how armed groups are bound by human rights law.
Fortin, Katharine
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2017
Guidelines
This Toolkit is based upon the Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict and comprises a number of practical tools intended as teaching aids, guidance and aides memoire for national Ministries of Defense, military trainers, officers and soldiers, and their equivalent for non-state armed groups, involved in the planning and conduct of military operations.
2017
GCPEA
Report
This report is a summary on the workshop hosted by Norway, Sierra Leone, Zambia, and the GCPEA that focused on the implementation of the Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict with representatives from ministries of defense, education, and the national armed forces of 14 of the 17 African states that already endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration, as well as regional and international peacekeeping and education experts.
2017
GCPEA
Paper
This article examines the principal arguments against implicit detention authority and then applies the law of treaty interpretation to international humanitarian law's detention-related provisions.
Murray, Daragh
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2017
Report
This document was jointly prepared by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to propose resolutions for factors impeding humanitarian rights in education.
2017
Report
This report highlights important findings discussed in a working meeting by representatives of armed non-State actors (ANSAs) and
specialized agencies on how children and
education could be better protected from the effects of
armed conflict.
Geneva Call
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2016
Education Above All, Geneva Call
Book
Using a distinctly contextual approach, this book addresses the challenges of the diversity of interpretation within Islamic legal traditions, by combining theoretical perspectives on Islamic law with insight into how local understandings impact on the application of law in Muslim daily life.
Ali, Shaheen Sardar
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2016
Book
This book is concerned with the international regulation of non-state armed groups and specifically, it examines the possibility of subjecting armed groups to international human rights law obligations.
Murray, Daragh
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2016
Report
The aim of this paper is to describe what is actually being done in the
field at the school-level to protect education from attack, identifying
the risks and challenges involved, and drawing out lessons learned and
recommendations from these measures as well as other literature on
the topic.
Smith, Melinda
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2016
GCPEA
Report
This article-by-article Commentary takes into account developments in the First Convention and practice to provide up-to-date interpretations of the Convention.
2016
International Committee of the Red Cross
Report
This report highlights the current and impending challenges facing education in the world and provides recommendations to governments to encourage the prioritization of protecting education.
International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity
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2016
Report
This report summarizes the GCPEA hosted workshop that brought together more than 75 field practitioners, program managers, and
Ministry of Education officials, who comprised country teams from 11 different countries, to examine how to better safeguard education in conflict.
2016
GCPEA
Guidelines
Guide to Implementing the Principles of State Responsibility
to Protect Higher Education from Attack
This guide is a result of the GCPEA conducting a wide-ranging consultation with representatives of higher education networks and associations from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas to understand the causes and consequences of such attacks and to identify measures to increase protection.
GCPEA's Higher Education Working Group
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2016
GCPEA
Report
This report details the value of education through the perspective of child interviews and summarizes the cost of failing to protect education from attack.
2015
Save The Children
Report
This report is the first of a three-part series addressing the urgent issue of access to education for Syrian refugee schoolchildren in Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon.
Gee, Stephanie
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2015
Human Rights Watch
Guidelines
This Menu of Actions is intended as a resource to empower
personnel of ministries responsible for education to better prevent
attacks on education or protect schools from military use, mitigate the impact of attacks when they do occur, and respond to attacks.
Koons, Cynthia
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2015
GCPEA
Guidelines
This manual covers the concrete steps required for the implementation of the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, the various weapons treaties, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and other relevant treaties.
2015
International Committee of the Red Cross
Report
This paper describes how current humanitarian aid systems neglect the education of children and adolescents in countries affected by or emerging from conflict, and more and better targeted aid is needed.
Various Authors
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2015
UNESCO
Paper
This background paper was commissioned to inform the Workshop on Education
and Armed Non-State Actors (Geneva, 23-25 June 2015) organized by PEIC and Geneva Call by laying out a clear
frame of reference for better understanding the role of ANSAs in the provision of education.
Somer, Jonathan
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2015
Education Above All
Paper
This article examines the legal basis underpinning the application of international humanitarian law treaties to non-state armed groups.
Murray, Daragh
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2015
Report
This study uses examples from every region of the world, and demonstrates both the practice of militaries using education institutions and the consequences of such use for students, educators and communities.
2015
GCPEA
