Case Study, UNICEF, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, 2015
Population-Based Survey on Peace and Education: Uganda Case Study, conducted by Harvard Humanitarian Initiative in partnership with UNICEF, assesses factors affecting resilience, social cohesion and security as elements of peacebuilding in Uganda, and the interaction of education with those factors.
The effects of decades of violence on resilience, social cohesion, and levels of equality among various sectors of the population are still poorly understood. Moreover, education is assumed to play a critical role in the promotion of peacebuilding goals, but these assumptions are rarely tested. In Uganda, as in many post-conflict countries, regional disparities in educational access and correlations with resilience and social cohesion in the population have not been scrutinized. This study was designed to fill those gaps. It included consultation with key informants involved in peacebuilding and educational programming in Uganda, and a survey of randomly selected respondents. The present report focuses on educational outcomes among Ugandan youth, as well as social cohesion and resilience in the adult population.