[Deaf Arab] High-Level Symposium: Conflict-Sensitive Education - Why and How?

 

 

High-Level Symposium: Conflict-Sensitive Education - Why and How?

Date: 8 April 2013

Venue: UNESCO, Paris, France

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Afghan children playing in the afternoon sun in the Darulaman area of Kabul, Afghanistan, 2007, UNAMA

UNESCO-IIEP and INEE through its Working Group on Education and Fragility are co-organizing a High-Level Symposium entitled Conflict-Sensitive Education – Why and How? to be held on 8 April 2013 at UNESCO's Headquarters in Paris.

The Symposium will bring together some 100 to 150 high-level participants representing ministries of education and other government bodies, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, UN agencies, bilateral development organizations, the private sector, civil society organizations, as well as leading national and international agencies promoting education in emergency and fragile contexts.

The Symposium will see the launch of the INEE harmonized approach and tools to introduce conflict-sensitivity in education policies, programmes and investment.

The participants are expected to endorse a Common Framework for prioritizing conflict-sensitive education in crisis-affected countries, and for the further mobilization of all key stakeholders around concerted actions to help these countries achieve Education for All targets and the MDGs.

This Common Framework is also expected to support conflict-affected countries applying for funding to the Global Partnership for Education to ensure that their education plans are not conflict-blind.

The symposium will be followed by a cocktail and a concert by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary for children affected by violence around the world.

Objective of the High-Level Symposium

It is expected that at the end of the High Level Symposium a common framework be endorsed by all participants to prioritize and develop conflict-sensitive education in conflict-affected and fragile contexts.

After the symposium it is expected that the discussions and common framework will be used for the Post 2015 consultations on future MDGs and EFA Goals.

Contact Us

For further information about this event, please contact:

Maria Lucia Uribe Torres
Deputy Coordinator for Education and Fragility
INEE Working Group on Education and Fragility
Tel: +41 22 739 8217
marialucia@ineesite.org

 

Moussa Charafeddine MD

http://www.inclusion-international.org/about-us/governance/honorary-members/moussa-charafeddine/

President, Friends of the Disabled Association
www.friendsfordisabled.org
Honorary Life Member, Inclusion International
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President, Lebanese National Union on Intellectual Disability UNAPIEI
Tel:+9613612581 Home +9615601049 Office:+9615601663
Fax:+9615602445 PO Box 14-6688 Beirut, Lebanon

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