Attacks on education and military use of schools and universities keep disrupting learning and putting students and educators at risk. Education under Attack 2026 recorded at least 9,259 attacks on education and incidents of military use in 2024–2025, more than 50% more than in 2022–2023, harming over 10,600 students, teachers and education personnel. Military use of schools and universities more than doubled, to over 2,100 cases.

No single actor can prevent and respond to these attacks alone. Governments, humanitarian clusters, especially Education and Protection, and local partners need to coordinate, and the work needs adequate, predictable funding. The Safe Schools Declaration gives states a political framework for this, and the Global Education Cluster’s guidance note on Systematizing Approaches for Attacks on Education helps cluster coordinators build attacks on education into the humanitarian programme cycle.

This 90-minute webinar is organised by the State-led Implementation Network on the Safe Schools Declaration (SSD Network), led by Norway and ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, together with the Global Education Cluster and the Global Protection Cluster. Education Cluster coordinators, the Global Protection Cluster and national authorities of endorsing states will share how they coordinate the prevention of and response to attacks on education in practice, and what they need to do it better.

What we will cover

• The evidence: key findings from Education under Attack 2026
• The frameworks: the Safe Schools Declaration and its Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict, and the Global Education Cluster’s guidance note on Systematizing Approaches for Attacks on Education
• The protection perspective: how Education and Protection actors work together on monitoring, referral, response and advocacy
• Voices from the field: how Education Clusters monitor incidents, use data for early warning and anticipatory action, and coordinate with partners and authorities
• National experiences: how national authorities put the Declaration into practice and links it with humanitarian coordination
• The way forward: shared challenges, gaps and priorities for follow-up

Who should attend

• Education Cluster coordinators, co-coordinators and information management officers
• Education Cluster partners: UN agencies, international and national NGOs, local organisations
• Protection Cluster and Child Protection coordinators
• Safe Schools Declaration focal points from endorsing states
• ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ members, Education in Emergencies working groups and donors

Programme

Speaker details will be announced closer to the date. Participants can post questions in the chat throughout. The recording, presentations and an outcome note will be shared within two weeks after the event.

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Related resources

• SSD Network online platform

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