eua_2014_full.pdf?utm_content=buffer4a392&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

SUMMARYThis global study examines threats or deliberate use offorce against students, teachers, academics, educationtrade union members, government officials, aid workersand other education staff, and against schools, universitiesand other education institutions, carried out for political,military, ideological, sectarian, ethnic or religious reasons in2009-2013; and military use of education buildings and facilities.It focuses on targeted attacks by state military and securityforces and armed non-state groups on education facilities,students or staff, not death, injury or destruction resulting frombeing caught in crossfire.It does not examine school attacks by lone armed individualswith none of the above-listed motives or affiliations, such as theschool shooting at Sandy Hook in the United States in 2012.6