Conference Report: Protecting education from attack

The Oslo Conference on Safe Schools: Protecting Education from Attack, was organised in Oslo 28–29 May 2015. At the Conference, representatives of states came together to show their interest in – and commitment to – the common goal of enhancing the protection of schools and education in situations of conflicts and crisis. The main objective of the conference was for states to endorse the Safe School Declaration, including to commit themselves to using “the Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities against Military Use in Conflict Situations”.