TEK-4: Addressing Crisis and Conflict in Urban Indigenous Education

The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education The influence of education on conflict and peace building

2010 This paper was commissioned by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report as background information to assist in drafting the 2011 report. It has not been edited by the team. The views and opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and should not be attributed to the EFA Global Monitoring Report or to UNESCO. The papers can be cited with the following reference: " Pape...

The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education Impact of Conflict on Children’s Health and Disability

Armed conflicts have changed in complexity and nature over the past few decades magnifying health challenges for children. Conflict impacts children's health in four important ways. First, conflict‐driven displacement increases child death and injury, mainly through increased susceptibility to infectious disease from unsanitary living conditions. A case study on Southern Sudan illustrates that ...

Addressing the Caregiving Crisis

Introduction Older men are at increased risk for prostate cancer. As seniors turn to the Internet for cancer information, it is important that the resources they locate about lifestyle behaviors and screening are culturally appropriate and easy to understand. This study was a comprehensive analysis of prostate cancer risk as portrayed on the Internet with assessment of content readability and c...

Conflict to crisis in recent

The recent crisis in Solomon Islands is as much political as economic. The economy contracted by 15 percent in 2000 and is estimated to have recorded another contraction in 2001. These contractions follow the ethnic tensions, much of which had been present for the last decade but escalated into fighting since 1999. This paper presents a simple model to better understand the mechanics of the con...

Addressing the crisis of violence.