Higher Education and Post-Conflict Recovery

This book offers a critical review of higher education and post-conflict recovery. It provides the first systematic study with a global scope that investigates the role of higher education systems in conflict-affected contexts. The first part of the book analyses the long-standing neglect of higher education in post-conflict recovery, the impact that conflict can have on the sector, and efforts to rebuild and reform higher education systems affected by violent conflict. The second part of the book considers the positive and negative contributions that higher education can make to a range of areas of recovery including humanitarian action, forced displacement, post-conflict reconstruction, statebuilding, and peacebuilding. With its reasoned defence of the importance of higher education for post-conflict recovery, the book will appeal to researchers, university students, and humanitarian and development policy-makers and practitioners.

First book on this topic to have a global focus rather than a single country case-study focus Offers a detailed analysis based on eight years of research and fieldwork Topical subject matter: conflict, humanitarianism and recovery are at the forefront of public and media attention due to multiple ongoing conflicts in Syria, Central African Republic, Iraq and elsewhere

Autorentext

Sansom Milton is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar. He was previously a Research Fellow at the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit, University of York, UK.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Neglected Sector.- Chapter 3: Impact of Conflict.- Chapter 4: Rebuilding and Reforming Higher Education.- Chapter 5: The Two Faces of Higher Education in Conflict and Peacebuilding.- Chapter 6: Higher Education in Emergencies.- Chapter 7: Reconstruction and Statebuilding.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.