The escalation of conflict in Lebanon is driving a severe education crisis, disrupting learning for hundreds of thousands of children and pushing an already fragile system closer to collapse. With schools repurposed as shelters, widespread displacement, and deepening inequality, access to education is increasingly determined by circumstance rather than right.
This brief highlights how layered crises – economic decline, displacement, and conflict – are accelerating learning loss, increasing the risk of permanent dropout, and disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable, particularly refugee children. It also underscores the urgent need for coordinated, equitable responses that protect both access to education and the conditions required for children to learn safely and effectively.
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