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Title: Exploring the Linkages between Education Sector Governance, Inequity, Conflict, and Peacebuilding in South Sudan
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Publication Year: 2016
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Abstract: While there is growing evidence that educational inequality can be a driver of conflict (FHI 360, 2015) and that the education system can both promote and undermine sustainable peacebuilding processes (Bush & Saltarelli, 2000; Davies, 2004b; Smith, 2005), education systems are often marginalized in both peacemaking and peacebuilding processes (Novelli & Smith, 2011). This study explores the relationship between education sector management, inequality, conflict and peacebuilding in South Sudan. It examines the linkages between inequities in education, broader political economy dynamics which contribute to conflict pressures, and how education sector governance could support sustainable peace and development processes. South Sudan gained independence in 2011, following decades of civil war. However, conflict – linked to patterns of marginalization and inequity along interrelated political, ethnic, geographic, and economic lines - has persisted in the country. These patterns of inequity and pressures for conflict have been perpetuated (and reproduced) in South Sudan’s education system since . . .
Url: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/61951/1/__smbhome.uscs.susx.ac.uk_dm50_Desktop_file.pdf
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Authors: Novelli, Mario; Daoust, Gabrielle; Selby, Jan; Valiente, Oscar; Scandurra, Rosario; Kuol, Luka Biong Deng; Salter, Emma
Publisher: UNICEF
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Education, Other
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