In recent years, the nature of the relationship between education, conflict and peacebuilding has risen up the international development agenda. Children’s right to quality education is under threat due to violent conflicts, mass displacement, natural disasters and growing social and economic inequalities globally. Education policies and programming that are designed to address concerns about access to educational resources, distribution and pedagogical approaches often fail to address complex political, security and economic challenges that are faced by learners in emergency situations. However, education builds capacity and social relationships by influencing individual and collective understandings, competencies, values, norms, opportunities, agency, and status equity. Proportional international education as a field has always carried a concern for peace, including international understanding and ameliorates of harms such as injustice and poverty. We have a growing portfolio of research that broadly focuses on:

• Evidence on the role of education in peacebuilding, based on academic and programming
• Concepts for peace education and their relevance for development cooperation
• Educational inclusion and the role of education in peace building
• Education in times of emergency, crisis and war
• Intersections between educational inequalities, injustices and violence/conflict
• Education and the roots of peace and violence
• Role of teachers in conflict and peacebuilding
• Youth, education and conflict
• Gender, education and peacebuilding