Interview for UKFIET, The Education and Development Forum:
Education for Children Affected by Emergencies: An Academic's Perspective October 3, 2018 Interview with WFPL News Louisville:
Grawemeyer Winner Dana Burde Talks Education During Conflict by Roxanne Scott | November 29, 2016 "What I realized on my first trip to Pakistan when I was doing research on Afghan refugee education in Balochistan is that they had been given this textbook in the 80s and early 90s. It was called “The Alphabet of Jihad Literacy.” And that book actually was intended to inculcate an idea of Jihad and violent Jihad. The most excessive and the most extreme examples of these links between violence and Jihad and religious obligation were designed for grades one through five, primarily one through six. and we, the U.S. government actually funded the development of these textbooks." Listen here Interview with NPR Ed:
Q&A: J Is For Jihad by Anya Kamenetz | December 6, 2014 "When you look at really intolerant, biased content, whether these books, or those in Germany pre-World War II, or in Rwanda before the genocide, all of these things condition people toward ideas, stereotypes, biases, and I think that's clear that it has some influence on underlying conditions for conflict." Read here Op-Ed for The New York Times
It takes a village to raise a school by Dana Burde | September 16, 2010 Despite impressive increases in enrollment since in 2001, some 60 percent of young Afghans are not in school; two-thirds of them are girls. Conventional schools are scarce, expensive and likely to remain under threat of attack. To best help Afghanistan, we need to support safer, cheaper and more effective ways to educate all its children. Read here NYU Steinhardt, At a Glance:
Burde Begins Major Research on Schooling in Afghanistan April 16, 2008 Education in emergencies has been remarkably underfunded and neglected by humanitarian aid organizations. That is only now starting to be rectified. Parents – even those living in the midst of sporadic civil strife – are typically desperate to get their children – girls and boys – into schools. Community-based schools offer support to their efforts, but we need to understand more about how well these community-schools serve the children they target. We hope our study will help illuminate these questions. Read here |
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Saudis and Extremism: 'Both the Arsonists and the Firefighters' by Scott Shane | August 25, 2016 Shane cites the United States' $50 million "jihad literacy" project under study in Schools for Peace or for Conflict in Afghanistan as an example of the confluence of U.S. and Saudi interests in fighting Soviet occupation and influence in Afghanistan. Read here Reference for The Washington Post:
ISIS is rewriting textbooks to push its violent ideology. The U.S. once did something similar in Afghanistan by Thomas Gibbons-Neff | July 27, 2016 There is strong evidence that using textbooks to create a culture of intolerance and hate is likely to increase public support for militancy. Particularly when these messages are framed in religious lessons exhorting young people to engage in violence and defend their faith. Read here NYU Steinhardt, At a Glance:
Researchers to Study Afghanistan’s Education System Under USAID, Danish International Development April 3, 2014 Community-based schools have been effective in educating Afghanistan’s children. As the country transitions away from NGO-supported schools to a system under the purview of the national government, the Ministry of Education wants to understand how best to manage this undertaking. Read here NYU Steinhardt, At a Glance:
NYU Stories: Afghans Want Schools, The Hard Part is Getting Their Children There by Eileen Reynolds | March 17, 2014 There’s a misconception in the West that Afghans are hostile to education and that they’re particularly hostile to educating girls. What’s hard for people to see is that, when you talk about sending girls to school, the problem is not with "school," the problem is "sending." Just separating those two things is incredibly important. Read here |