Education specialists met at Marlborough House, London this week to discuss the structure and content of the 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR), which will focus on education and violent conflict.

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Dr Indrajit Coomaraswamy, Interim Director responsible for Education at the Commonwealth Secretariat, said that the effects of violent conflict deny millions the right to education and pose a great barrier to achieving the EFA goals.

UNESCO: Seminar on Education and Violent Conflict

He said Ohio has added 526 beds for prisoners who commit violent acts as well as reintegration units that provide activities and education for those who display good behavior.

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He plans to reverse a rise in violent crime with a thorough overhaul of the police, almost to double spending on education and to cut the proportion of Dominicans in poverty from 34% to around 20%.

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If a child has been seriously disruptive or violent, they should be properly removed so they can get the specialist help they need to return to mainstream education.

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In the violent peripheries of some cities, there is a danger of rising crime undoing the good that is being done by education.

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