The ‘4 Rs’ as a tool for critical policy analysis of the education sector in conflict affected states

In this text, we discuss the 4Rs framework that we have designed as an analytical tool that allows researchers, policy-developers and practitioners to grasp the interconnected dimensions that shape and drive education systems, practices and outcomes in conflict affected contexts. The framework’s central normative position is that inequalities and injustice (including within the education system) are important for understanding the reasons for the outbreak of violent conflict (the drivers of conflict) and that addressing inequalities (including in education), and the legacies of conflict, are necessary to bring about sustainable peace and overcome the legacies of conflict.