Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- 1. Introduction -- Relationship between Conflict and Poverty -- Relationship between Education and Conflict -- The Present Study -- 2. Conflict, Poverty, and Education -- Factors Affecting Conflict Risk -- Characteristics of Resilience to Conflict -- 3. The Impact of Conflict on Education -- Destructive Effects of Conflict -- Surprising Resilience of Educational Systems -- Postconflict Reconstruction Conundrum -- 4. Preliminary Lessons -- Key Factors -- Key Principles -- Conflict Analysis -- Operating Environment -- Sequencing Interventions -- Leveraging Interim Arrangements and Transitional Mechanisms -- Prioritizing within a System-wide Approach -- Building on Existing Initiatives -- Demonstrating Early and Visible Impact -- Encouraging Community Involvement -- Early Initiation of Technical and Capacity-building Work -- Building Effective Partnerships -- 5. Promising Directions in System Reconstruction -- Sector Assessment -- Challenges for Decentralization -- Education Access -- Quality Improvement -- Qualified Teachers -- Curriculum Issues -- Financing and Governance -- Specific Postconflict Challenges -- 6. Neglected Issues -- Sectoral Imbalance -- Challenges of Interagency Coordination -- Refugees and Internally Displaced Populations -- Youth and Adult Education -- Interlinked Initiatives -- The Role of Private Education -- 7. A Role for the World Bank -- Deployment of Bank Resources -- Neglected Areas of Youth and Secondary Education -- 8. Concluding Comments -- Index -- BOXES -- 4.1 Sinclair's Principles of Emergency Education -- 5.1. Summary of Key Lessons from Central America -- 6.1 Strategies that Address Youth Unemployment and Exclusion -- FIGURES -- 3.1 Burundi: Gross Enrollment Rate, 1988-1999 -- 3.2 Burundi: Net Enrollment Rate, 1990-2000.

3.3 Gross Enrollment Rates and Conflict -- 3.4 Enrollment Trends in Rwanda, 1970-2001 -- 3.5 Enrollment Trends in Timor Leste, 1976-2001 -- 4.1 The Education Reconstruction Continuum -- 5.1 Timor Leste Enrollment Poverty Gap, 2001 -- 5.2 Education Expenditure as Percentage of Gross Domestic Product -- 6.1. United Nations Coordination Mechanisms Affecting Education Reconstruction -- TABLES -- 3.1. Refugee Populations above 200,000 Located within Same Region as Country of Origin -- 3.2. Schools Requiring Repair or Reconstruction after Conflict -- 7.1 Analysis of World Bank Loan and Grant Education Expenditure (Completed and Active) in 21 Conflict-Affected Countries, 1994-2002.