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- Title
Education for young people in armed conflict.
- Authors
Towaye, A. B. Pobuwolo
- Abstract
This paper examines the impact of war on the education of young people in armed conflict and also give a situational analysis of youths and children in armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Colombia and Cambodia. The paper also looks at how the life of youth and children can be restored through reintegration activities, provision of formal and informal education, employment, facilitation of psychosocial training and vocational training opportunities. It provides a gender perspective of how girls and women are mostly vulnerable in conflict times and stresses the implementation of the right to education instruments such as the convention on the Right of the Child, the Human Right Convention, MDG-2, Refugee convention of 1951 and the EFA framework to enhance the education of war affected young people.
- Subjects
CONGO (Democratic Republic); INDIA; COLOMBIA; CAMBODIA; WAR &; education; STUDENTS &; war; RIGHT to education
- Publication
Peace & Conflict Monitor, 2012, p2
- Publication type
Article