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Friday, 17 Dec 2021

PRIO Participates in New Project on Faith Education in Norway

The FAITHED project has received funding from the Research Council of Norway to study children and youth with a religious minority background in Norway and their relationship to non-formal and formal religious education.

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Thursday, 17 Jun 2021

New Animation Highlights Need for Refugee Education and Durable Futures

Education in situations of conflict and crisis is central in efforts to protect children and youth in the near-term and fostering peaceful coexistence over the longer-term. But how can education enable individuals and communities to build durable futures when there is great uncertainty about where these futures will be?

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Friday, 30 Oct 2020

Virtual workshop on education in conflict and exile

Over four sessions in October, 20 academics and practitioners from around the world met virtually to discuss the question of how education can enable refugee individuals and communities to build durable futures when there is great uncertainty about where these futures will be? Recognizing the protracted nature of refugee situations, the latest UNHCR education strategy prioritizes the integration of refugees into the national education systems of host countries. While this strategy may increase refugee children and youth's access to 'inclusive and equitable quality education' (SDG4), it fails to recognize the limbo in which refugees find themselves in low- and middle-income host countries: they are non-citizens who cannot access the durable futures that education promises them.

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Thursday, 13 Jan 2022

Even at Times of Crisis, Children Must Go to School

The most recent debate concerning school closures has focused on vulnerable children and how school closures will cut them off from a place of safety. While the Children’s Ombudsperson and others are concerned about the impact of school closures on the most vulnerable children, others express doubts as to what ...

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2021

Can Education Reduce Violent Crime? Evidence from Mexico before and after the Drug War Onset

By Mauricio Rivera, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch & Bárbara Zárate-Tenório in Journal of Development Studies

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Thursday, 17 Jun 2021

47- A Future to Meet One's Aspirations: Education and Refugee Experiences in Dadaab

In late 1991, refugee camps were set up in Dadaab, Kenya. Today, the three camps located there make up the third-largest refugee complex in the world. For many, Dadaab is a long term home, and education is of course an important part of life both in the camp and once an individual leaves. But while the UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 recognizes the need for everyone to have access to education, questions still remain about how to convert that education into stable and durable futures.

Today, Hassan Aden takes us into his research from Dadaab and launches a new animation made in collaboration with Hanna Ali and the PositiveNegatives team.

Related material

The REBuilD project webpage
Refugee Education: A Long-Term Investment, a PRIO Policy Brief by Hassan and Cindy Horst and Hassan
Watch "An Agent for Change" on Vimeo
You can find more PositiveNegatives work at positivenegatives.org

News

Friday, 30 Oct 2020

Virtual workshop on education in conflict and exile

Journal Article

2022

No right to read: National regulatory restrictions on refugee rights to formal education in low- and middle-income host countries

By Kendra Dupuy, Júlia Palik & Gudrun Østby in International Journal of Educational Development

PRIO Blogs

Tuesday, 16 Nov 2021

Protection of Education in Conflict Zones – a Step in the Right Direction

On Friday October 30, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution on the protection of education in conflict zones. This is one of the most important matters on which Norway has facilitated negotiations in the Security Council and the resolution is a major step in the right direction for protecting ...

News

Thursday, 17 Jun 2021

New Animation Highlights Need for Refugee Education and Durable Futures

News

Friday, 17 Dec 2021

PRIO Participates in New Project on Faith Education in Norway

PRIO Blogs

Thursday, 17 Jun 2021

Agents of Change? How to fulfill the promise of education to refugees

PRIO Blogs

Monday, 25 Jan 2021

COVID-19: Towards a Digital Fragmentation of the Right to Education?

COVID-19 lockdowns have had momentous impact on children’s lives worldwide and in particular on the right to education. Save the Children reports that more than 1.6 billion learners globally have faced school closures due to the pandemic, resulting in at least 10 million children not returning to school.[1] Among key international stakeholders, there ...