Education in the twenty‐first century: Conflict, reconstruction and reconciliationFootnote1

1. This paper draws upon a report for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) on education, conflict and international development (Smith & Vaux, Citation2003) and was the basis for a keynote address to the 2004 biennial conference of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE).

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