Schoolchildren as Propaganda Tools in the War on Terror

1. Front Matter

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2. Re-Examining the Role of Education Aid as a Component of the ‘Humanitarian’ Agenda in Conflict-Affected States

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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3. Re-examining the Role of Education Aid as a Component of the Humani-tarian Agenda in Conflict-Affected States

   1. Introduction

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      Pages 3-20

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   2. Paradoxes Resulting from the Militarization of Education Aid

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      Pages 21-56

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4. Attacks on Education: The Scope of the Problem and the Unwitting Complicity of CAFS, their Coalition Allies and the International Aid Community

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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5. Attacks on education: The scope of the problem and the unwitting complicity of CAFS, their coalition allies and the international aid community

   1. Schooling as Counter-Terrorist Strategy

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      Pages 59-94

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   2. Analysis of UN and NGO Rights Rhetoric in Addressing Terror Attacks on Education: The Implications for Schoolchildren’s Security Interests

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      Pages 95-136

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6. Attacks on Education: Issues of Accountability for Both Sides in the ‘War on Terror’

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      Pages 137-137

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7. Attacks on Education: Issues of Accountability for Both Sides in the ‘War on Terror

   1. International Humanitarian Law and the Protection of Education in Conflict-Affected States

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      Pages 139-220

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   2. Schoolchildren Knowingly Placed at Risk of Terror Attack: The Complicity of High Profile Human Rights Gatekeepers

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      Pages 221-254

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   3. Concluding Remarks

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      Pages 255-275

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8. Back Matter

   Pages 277-279

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This book explores in what ways both sides involved in the so-called war on terror are using schoolchildren as propaganda tools while putting the children's security at grave risk. The book explores how terrorists use attacks on education to attempt to destabilize the government while the government and the international aid community use increases in school attendance as an ostensible index of largely illusory progress in the overall security situation and in development. The book challenges the notion that unoccupied civilian schools are not entitled under the law of armed conflict to a high standard of protection which prohibits their use for military purposes. Also examined are the potential violations of international law that can occur when government and education aid workers encourage and facilitate school attendance, as they do, in areas within conflict-affected states such as Afghanistan where security for education is inadequate and the risk of terror attacks on education high.

• International humanitarian law
• children's human rights
• education in confict-affected States
• international criminal law
• international human rights law

• Fac. Education, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada

  Sonja C. Grover

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