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Panel Discussion:

Refugees, Education and Conflict 

Join us on January 27, when the World Refugee & Migration Council (WRMC) will partner with the US Institute of Peace (USIP) on a panel discussion to explore links among refugees, access to education and conflict.

According to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, education — aimed at increasing understanding and tolerance among groups and furthering the cause of peace — should be available to all. But refugee children, forced to flee from their homes and countries, are often deprived of educational opportunities. Half of the world’s elementary school-aged refugee children and three-quarters of refugee adolescents were not in school in 2019. 

A lack of educational opportunities has devastating economic, political, and social effects on individuals and communities in the near term and with consequences for long-term prospects of peace.

At the event, three distinguished panelists — International consultant Marc SommersSarah Dryden-Peterson of Harvard University’s School of Education, and Suha Tutunji, academic director of Jusoor (Lebanon) — will discuss refugee education policies and practice, and the implications of limited access to education for refugee youth. Pamela Aall and Tyler Beckelman of USIP will introduce the program, and Elizabeth Ferris, WRMC vice-president for research, will moderate.

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