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
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
Report
A part of 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. (Nigeria)
Jones, Amir; Naylor, Ruth
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2014
CfBT Education Trust, Education Above All
Report
This report describes the significant impact of Boko Haram on schools in Nigeria, specifically highlighting the abductions of women and girls, and the lasting consequences of their violence.
Muscati, Samer; Segun, Mausi
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2014
Human Rights Watch
Article
This article describes the impact of Boko Haram on schools in Nigeria, specifically highlighting the violence toward women and female students.
2014
Human Rights Watch
None
This document serves as a call-to-action for states to protect higher education from attack.
2014
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 2009-2013.
Various Contributors
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2014
GCPEA
Report
A part of 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. (DRC)
Jones, Amir; Naylor, Ruth
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2014
CfBT Education Trust, Education Above All
Report
This publication identifies trends in the practice and contribution of UN human rights mechanisms to the protection of education in times of insecurity and armed conflict and offers recommendations on how such protection might be strengthened.
Karimova, Takhmina et al.
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2014
Geneva Academy
Report
This briefing paper focuses specifically on targeted attacks on elementary and secondary education personnel and measures implemented to protect them.
Smith, Melinda; Koons, Cynthia; et al.
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2014
GCPEA
Report
The goal of this paper is to serve as a guide for involving communities in protecting education in ways that harness the benefits and minimize the risks.
Thompson, Hannah;
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2014
GCPEA
Paper
The article analyzes the nature and meaning of peremptory norms in international law, as well as their relationship with obligations towards the international community as a whole.
de Wet, Erika
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2013
Report
This updated preliminary survey by Amnesty International of legislation around the world is designed to assist the Sixth Committee in its annual discussions of universal jurisdiction.
2012
Amnesty International
Report
Developed by UNICEF, the UN Global Compact and Save the Children – the Children’s Rights and Business Principles (the Principles) are the first comprehensive set of principles to guide companies on the full range of actions they can take in the workplace, marketplace and community to respect and support children’s rights.
2012
UNICEF
Paper
The article analyses the European Court of Human Rights’ judgments in Al-Skeini v. United Kingdom and Al-Jedda v. United Kingdom.
Milanović, Marko
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2012
Book
In this evaluation of the international legal standing of the right to reparation and its practical implementation at the national level, Christine Evans outlines State responsibility and examines the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice, the Articles on State Responsibility of the International Law Commission and the convergence of norms in different branches of international law, notably human rights law, humanitarian law and international criminal law.
Evans, Chrsitine
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2012
Guidelines
The objective of the UNESCO-UIS/OECD/EUROSTAT data collection on education statistics is to provide internationally comparable data on key aspects of education systems, specifically on the participation and completion of education programs, as well as the cost and type of resources dedicated to education.
2012
UNESCO
Paper
The purpose of this article is to give further legitimacy to the role of human rights law in armed conflict and show that cooperation between the UN and the ICRC has a long history.
Fortin, Katharine
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2012
Article
This article describes the ruling of the ICC on Thomas Lubanga's war crime of conscripting and enlisting children under the age of 15 and using them to participate actively in hostilities in conflicts not of an international character.
Urban, Nicole
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2012
Report
A paper focused on the provision of education while in armed conflict emergencies.
Talbot, Christopher
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2012
NORRAG
Book
Conor McCarthy's study of the Rome Statute's regime of victim redress provides a comprehensive exploration of this framework, examining both its reparations regime and its scheme for the provision of victim support through the ICC Trust Fund.
McCarthy, Conor
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2012
Book
This book examines the notion of state jurisdiction in human rights treaties, and places it within the framework of international law.
Milanović, Marko
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2011
Book
The material in this book is intended to give a clear understanding of contemporary international human rights law as it applies to, and has been interpreted in, situations of armed conflict and counter-terrorism measures.
Doswald-Beck, Louise
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2011
Report
This study documents nine types of field-based measures in 20 countries, and develops priorities for a research agenda on programmatic measures to protect education from attack.
Groneman, Christine
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2011
GCPEA
Book
This report examines the laws and practices of 56 countries around the world, and evaluates global progress on ensuring that schools and other education facilities are protected during times of conflict
Sheppard, Bede
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2011
Human Rights Watch
Report
This report describes the causes and consequences of violent attacks on education as well as preventative and restorative measures to take to protect students, teachers, and schools.
Coursen-Neff, Zama; Sheppard, Bede
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2011
Human Rights Watch
Book
This fully revised fourth edition of "Constraints on the Waging of War" considers the development of the principal rules of international humanitarian law from their origins to the present day.
Kalshoven, Fritz
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2011
International Committee of the Red Cross
Case study
After documenting the process and activities of successful local initiatives, consultations were carried out to develop the Schools as Zones of Peace (SZOP) National Framework, aimed to develop a national policy for establishing all schools as Zones of Peace by keeping them free from political and other interference – discrimination, violence, corporal punishment, neglect and exploitation.
2011
Save The Children
Book
Global Education Monitoring Report Team
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2011
UNESCO
Guidelines
The International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 2011) provides a comprehensive framework for organizing education programs and qualification by applying uniform and internationally agreed definitions to facilitate comparisons of education systems across countries.
2011
UNESCO
Paper
This article to attempts to explain the defined requirements of military necessity and their implications in regard to international humanitarian and criminal law.
Hayashi, Nobuo
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2010
Book
Through analysis of legislative and judicial actions in a selection of Muslim and non-Muslim States in relation to the rights of the child in criminal matters, this study aims to identify possible harmonization between the obligations of the international human rights law (e.g. the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child) and the criminal justice systems within each State, particularly Islamic law (Sharia).
Abiad, Nisrine et al.
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2010
Paper
This article analyzes the International Committee of the Red Cross' "Interpretive Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities under International Humanitarian Law" and its implications.
Akande, Dapo
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2010
Book
This book explores the development of international human rights law over the last six decades (2010) by bringing together leading experts to reflect on different aspects of human rights law, not only considering and evaluating the developments so far, but also identifying relevant problems and proposing relevant possible perspectives for the continued positive future development of human rights law.
Baderin, Mashood et al.
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2010
Paper
This Article considers the impact, or tremors, of paragraph 70 of the decision on interlocutory appeal on jurisdiction of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in Prosecutor v. Tadić, which was delivered in October 1995.
Kritsiotis, Dino
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2010
Book
This selection discusses the collateral civilian casualties resulting from bombing campaigns.
Byron, Christine
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2010
Paper
This article considers the provision of the Statute of the Court from the optic of generality, and assesses the extent to which this might affect our understanding of how notions of consent and consensus impact and should impact the making of public international law.
Kritsiosis, Dino
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2010
Report
This report details the substantial ways improving access to education can have a significant positive impact on the Millenium Development Goals.
2010
UNESCO
Book
UNESCO has commissioned a series of publications to enhance global understanding of the nature, scope, motives and impact of attacks on education and of the work that is being done by communities, organizations and governments to prevent and respond to such violence.
Alexander, Jessica et al.
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2010
UNESCO
Paper
The paper provides an overview of the damage to childhood development and learning capacity caused by traumatic stress in former child soldiers, and highlights evidence on specific learning difficulties faced by children and adolescents in insecure and violent environments-with a focus on cognitive and other competencies needed for classroom settings.
Boothby, Neil; Nichol, Brownwyn
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2010
Education Above All
Book
This market-leading textbook gives an authoritative account of international criminal law, and focuses on what the student needs to know - the crimes that are dealt with by international courts and tribunals as well as the procedures that police the investigation and prosecution of those crimes.
Cryer, Robert
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2010
Paper
This article argues that the notion of ‘belonging to a Party’ to an international armed conflict under Article 4A(2) of the Third Geneva Convention is a necessarily low-threshold requirement.
Del Mar, Katherine
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2010
Paper
In this journal article, the author describes the relationship between international humanitarian law and international human rights law, exposing the nuances and the controversy of their applications.
Eden, Paul et al.
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2010
Book
This chapter of "Human Rights Regimes in the Americas" explains the unique vantage point of the Americas to analyze foreign nations' governments and attention to human rights.
Engstrom, Par
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2010
Book
This title provides comprehensive guidance on the practice, procedure, and rules of evidence applicable to all international criminal courts.
Khan, Karim et al.
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2009
Paper
This article describes the Inter-American system of human rights protection focusing mainly on the roles of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
González, Felipe
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2009
Book
This textbook aims to be a best practice manual to assist scholars and practitioners worldwide with international humanitarian law.
Fleck, Dieter
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2009
Paper
The two aims of this study were to provide an overview of the evidence-base for mental health and psychosocial treatment for children and adolescents in areas affected by violence and to synthesize treatment descriptions and recommendations in order to summarize trends, including the non-researched, practical and grassroots context.
Jordans, Mark et al.
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2009
Report
This report aims to clarify the meaning and consequences of direct participation in hostilities under international humanitarian law (IHL).
Melzer, Nils
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2009
International Committee of the Red Cross
Paper
This article examines the processes and effectiveness of the collective complaints system of the European social charter.
Cullen, Holly
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2009
Paper
This study aimed to determine the prevalence of mental disorders among children affected by war using a systematic review and meta-regression analysis.
Attanayake, Vindya; et al.
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2009
