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2 Early Childhood Development During Times of Conflict and Violence
2 Early Childhood Development During Times of Conflict and Violence
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He did so by highlighting the migration patterns and demographic shifts of the current global refugee population, specifically focusing on the Syrian conflict and its impacts within Jordan and the Middle East. Al-Nsour emphasized that the Syrian conflict is the single worst and largest driver of global displacement since World War II, citing 59.5 million cumulative displaced people in 2014 (the most recent figure)
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FIGURE 2-2 Syrian refugees registered in the region.
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Furthermore, the gaps in specific health services is not unique to refugee communities but also extends into host communities, as systems are taxed with population fluctuations and overwhelming growth over a short period of time in the countries receiving refugees -- especially Jordan and Lebanon. Al-Nsour pointed out that the mass population movement in the region has left children more exposed to adverse conditions affecting their growth and transition to adulthood (see Box 2-1)
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Doing so, he argued, would facilitate coordinated integration of health services across multiple sectors and levels of government involvement to ensure standardized and cohesive care to refugee and host populations. A GENERATION OF REFUGEES Rami Khouri of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, shifted away from the patterns and processes characterizing refugees in the M iddle East to speak about the environment in which children today are born, grow, and mature.
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Khouri stated that in Egypt alone, there have been approximately 9 million children born in the past 5 years. While the Egyptian system in its current operational form cannot turn its back to the needs of this recent addition, there are approximately 81 million people in Egypt today where the system already fails to feed, house, employ, educate, and provide health care.
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Young people need the ability to imagine that it is within their power to break the cycle of poverty, marginalization, and helplessness. THREE REGIONAL TRENDS AFFECTING EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT Mohammed Abu-Nimer, professor of peace and conflict resolution at the American University in the United States and senior advisor at KAICIID, pointed out that the physical imprint of conflict is not the only detriment suffered; conflict leaves its mark on one's individual, social, and religious identity.
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Citing a study among teachers in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine, 92 percent of Arab teachers interviewed expressed the need for skills to reduce the practice of social violence in their schools. Abu-Nimer went on to state that in none of the educational systems that were part of the study did a formal class exist to teach reconciliation or forgiveness.
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While the study made use of standardized measures for mental health, it also used methods to capture illustrative expressions of emotional experiences by way of a series of three drawings -- of a person, of war, and of hope. Drawings of individuals contained blood, dying, and other signs of conflict (see Figure 2-3)
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After the conflict began, those numbers plummeted, with now almost half of Syrian children no longer enrolled in schools. In Turkey, there are 2.7 million refugees from Syria, with more than 1 million kids who are school aged; 10 percent of these children live in a refugee camp.
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He presented the final set of images in the sequence of a person, war, and hope that research subjects were asked to draw. Illustrations of hope conveyed the message that despite difficult conditions, children are resilient, and they can imagine a better future (see Figure 2-5)
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