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At a school in Lahore, Pakistan, people hold candles and pictures of Malala Yousafzai,
a student shot by the Pakistani Taliban for speaking out against the militants’
destruction of schools and for promoting education for girls, 12 October 2012.
© 2012 REUTERS/Mohsin Raza
The main parts of Education under Attack 2014 are:
• a summary providing an overview of the main points and key recommendations;
• a methodology section outlining the methods used in the research and the principal challenges
faced;
• a global overview providing a more detailed picture of the scale, nature, motives and impact of
attacks on education and the variety of responses that are being, or could be, made;
• three thematic essays offering more depth about how schools and universities can best be
protected;
• profiles of the 30 most seriously affected countries, providing an insight into the context in
which attacks take place, a detailed record of reported attacks on education during 2009-2012
and an outline of attacks during the first nine months of 2013; and
• endnotes providing citations for every piece of information used in the study.
The full Education under Attack 2014 study is available online at www.protectingeducation.org
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