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EDUCATION UNDER ATTACK - RECLAIMING SCHOOLS AS ZONES OF PEACE
Helene-Marie Gosselin
MAY 2008 (IPS) - Amongst the many casualties of conflict, education seldom makes the
headlines, but students, teachers, administrators, and education officials
are also on the front lines of battle, writes Helene-Marie Gosselin,
director of the UNESCO Office to the United Nations.
In this article, Gosselin writes that the right to education is a pillar of
development. Prosperity and peace can only be achieved if we commit to
ending the injustice of denying this right to the millions of children
around the world who can't go to school, and who will nonetheless have to
make their way in the world as adults. UNESCO estimates that about 37
percent of the 72 million children not in school live in conflict-affected
areas.
There cannot be peace without upholding the right to education, or without
ending the vicious cycle of violence in and against our schools. Can we not
open doors to the 72 million children not in school, teach peaceful
co-existence, and make all our schools a sacred place?
/NOT FOR PUBLICATION IN AUSTRALIA, CANADA, NEW ZEALAND, CZECH
REPUBLIC, IRELAND, POLAND, UNITED STATES, OR UNITED KINGDOM/
(END/2008)
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