Education Under Attack 2020

This report is the fifth edition of Education under Attack, a series of publications on attacks on education and military use of educational facilities. Such attacks are defined as any threat or actual use of either targeted or indiscriminate force by state armed forces, including law enforcement, as well as by non-state armed groups, on students, education personnel, or educational infrastructure or materials, for political, military, ideological, sectarian, ethnic, or religious reasons. In addition, this report also monitors the use of schools and universities for military or security purposes. The report examines situations of both armed conflict and insecurity.