The Hidden Crisis: Education and Armed Conflict

The 2011 Global Monitoring Report (GMR) on ‘The Hidden Crisis: Education and armed conflict’ clearly states that if the international community does not act now, there could be more children out of school in 2015 than there are today.Save the Children welcomes the GMR’s focused attention on one of the greatest barriers to education: armed conflict in the poorest countries.This briefing outlines Save the Children’s calls to the international community to increase funding for education in conflict-affected fragile states.