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Africa Regional Education Systems Resilience Observatory

Project Overview

Across Africa, education systems are increasingly shaped by complex and overlapping challenges, including economic instability, climate-related disruptions, demographic shifts, and rapid technological change. These pressures—alongside large-scale shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic—have exposed vulnerabilities in service delivery and highlighted the urgent need to strengthen education system resilience.
The Africa Regional Education Systems Resilience Observatory (ARESRO) examines how education system resilience is understood, implemented, and experienced across diverse African contexts. Taking a regional and comparative approach, the project explores both current practices and emerging innovations that aim to strengthen education systems, with particular attention to the needs of vulnerable and marginalized populations.
ARESRO also investigates potential future shocks and stressors that may impact education systems, supporting more proactive, adaptive, and forward-looking policy and planning across the region.

Project Partners

ARESRO is implemented through a multi-institutional partnership spanning Africa and Canada.
The project is led by the Resilient African Network at Makerere University (Uganda), with regional coordination provided by LECERP in Anglophone West Africa.
At Dalhousie University, the Resilience Research Centre contributes to research design, analysis, and knowledge mobilization activities.
ARESRO is funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) through the Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX).
The project is further supported through collaboration with academic institutions, policy actors, and education stakeholders across multiple African countries.

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Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice (2021)

Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding reconciliation – implicitly encompass a resilience element, transitional justice has not been explicitly theorised as a process for building resilience in communities and societies that have suffered large-scale violence and human rights violations. The chapters in this unique volume theoretically and empirically explore the concept of resilience in diverse societies that have experienced mass violence and human rights abuses. They analyse the extent to which transitional justice processes have – and can – contribute to resilience and how, in so doing, they can foster adaptive peacebuilding. This book is available as Open Access.

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Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice (2021)

Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding reconciliation – implicitly encompass a resilience element, transitional justice has not been explicitly theorised as a process for building resilience in communities and societies that have suffered large-scale violence and human rights violations. The chapters in this unique volume theoretically and empirically explore the concept of resilience in diverse societies that have experienced mass violence and human rights abuses. They analyse the extent to which transitional justice processes have – and can – contribute to resilience and how, in so doing, they can foster adaptive peacebuilding. This book is available as Open Access.

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