This paper examines the relationships between natural disasters (and climate change) and violent conflict. It briefly reviews the evidence that disasters and climate change, by causing resource scarcity and/or triggering displacement and migration, can lead to violent conflict. While these effects have been studied by others (Nel and Righarts, 2008), too little attention has been paid to how educational planning helps to mitigate the effects of natural disaster, and thereby averts conflict.
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Year of publication
2010
Place of publication
Paris
Pages
42
Publisher
UNESCO
Series
Background paper for the Education for all global monitoring report 2011, The hidden crisis: armed conflict and education
Language
English
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