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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. 

Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future. 

On the transfer, co-founder Victoria Martin expressed her pleasure to see this work continue under Wits' leadership, knowing that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction. 

As Wits, we honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades and look forward building from that strong base. This includes co-founders Warren Feek (1953-2024) and Victoria Martin as well as La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA), which continues independently at lainiciativadecomunicacion.com with links to The CI Global site. We are also eager to forge new partnerships and entertain new ideas as we consider how best to contribute to social and behaviour change in our rapidly evolving environment.

If you are joining the International Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Summit in Panama, please join Wits and CILA on Monday, 22 June, to share your thoughts and suggestion for the relaunch of the Communication Initiative. We will be in Pacifica 5 from 12-1:25 for the Refuel, Reflect, and Renew Lunch Series: The Communication Initiative: celebrating a driving force for Communication for Social Change and the way forward. We will reflect on the legacy of Warren Feek and family in creating the Communication Initiative, consider the contributions of CI over the years and then turn our attention towards the future in this dynamic session. 

If you are unable to join us in Panama, we still want to hear from you. Please contribute your thoughts by following this link: https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026 or reaching out to ci_surveys@commint.com. 

You can also follow the QR Code:

 https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026

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Forced Migration Review Supplement - Education and Conflict: Research, Policy and Practice

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This July 2006 supplement complements the Forced Migration Review issue on education and emergencies - "Education in emergencies: learning for a peaceful future" - published in January 2005. It includes summaries of key presentations from the "Education and Conflict: Research, Policy and Practice" conference convened by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Oxford University. It also includes additional contributions from the field.

Table of Contents
  • Editorial by David Johnson and Ellen van Kalmthout
  • UNICEF Education Strategy 2006-2015 by Cream Wright
  • Post-conflict education: time for a reality check? by Peter Buckland
  • Putting children in the picture by Jason Hart
  • UNHCR [The United Nations Refugee Agency]'s education challenges by Eva Ahlen
  • Emergencies, education and innovation by Rebecca Winthrop
  • Understanding the education-war interface by Lynn Davies
  • Learning to deliver education in fragile states by Martin Greeley and Pauline Rose
  • Education, reconstruction and state building in Afghanistan by Jeaniene Spink
  • Impact of conflict in Africa by Kathryn Touré
  • Rebuilding education from scratch in Liberia by Diana Quick
  • Northern Ireland: post-conflict education model? by Paul Nolan
  • South Sudan education emergency by Tim Brown
  • Getting Southern Sudanese children to school by Sibeso Luswata
  • Rebuilding Timor-Leste's education system by Susan Nicolai
  • Education and chronic crisis in Palestine by Susan Nicolai
  • USAID, education and conflict in Asia and the Near East by Vijitha Eyango
  • Learning away from home: the BEFARe project by Shakir Ishaq and Atle Hetland
  • Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies by Allison Anderson and Mary Mendenhall
  • Education and conflict: an NGO perspective by Lyndsay Bird
  • The precious chance to go to school by Isabella Kitari Feliciano
  • Chance to learn for refugee schoolgirl in Chad (UNICEF)

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Number of Pages
32
Source

Eldis Education Reporter, November 2 2006.

PDFLink
http://www.fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/EducationSupplement/full.pdf