AUTHORS

Kacem BENSALAH

Kacem BENSALAH is graduate from Algiers University and has a Doctorate in Education Sciences from Paris-Sorbonne. He is specialist of Educational Planning (IIEP). He spent his career as Director of Research and Educational Planning in the Ministry of Education in Algeria and as Senior Technical Adviser of UNESCO/UNDP/World Bank in the field in Latin America, Africa and Middle East. He was recently Director of the UNESCO Regional Office for Education for the Arab States (Beirut). He works as Director of Emergency Educational Assistance in UNESCO, Paris, and coordinates this thematic study.

Kacem BENSALAH published general articles and documents about education and social change in the developing countries.

Margaret SINCLAIR

Margaret SINCLAIR is currently a senior consultant on humanitarian assistance. She gained her BA and D.Phil. at Oxford University. She graduated at London University in Educational Planning and Environmental Management. She hold many important positions such as Research Officer at IDS of University of Sussex.

With UNESCO, Margaret SINCLAIR worked as technical adviser on the establishment of an Academy of Educational Planning and Management in Islamabad (Pakistan). She worked, as Senior Education Adviser, with UNHCR in Geneva for Emergency Education.

She published several articles and monographs.

Fatma Hadj NACER

Mrs Fatma Hadj Nacer received her PhD from the Catholic University of Leuven in Sociology. She spent the major part of her career in University teaching and in the field of research. Currently, she is involved in research on women and violence in the Arab World. From 1973 to 1993, she worked at the University of Algeria at the "Centre de recherche en économie appliquée au développement" (CREAD), in Paris at the "Institut européen des études Maghreb-Europe".

She published several articles and monographs focusing on women’s role and violence in developping countries. She a founder member of the African Women’s Association for Research on Development as well as of the Arab Sociology Association

Angela COMMISSO

After taking her degree in Sociology at the University of Rome (1975), Angela Commisso joined the University of Sorbonne (Paris) where she obtained two post-graduate diplomas in rural sociology and political science. As consultant, she was responsible for educational and social programmes, particularly linked to children and adults in emergency situations: Angola, Somalia, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, Guatemala and Cambodia.

For UNESCO, she participated to produce a "Peace Education Package" (1995-96) used in primary schools and teacher training programmes, particularly in refugee camps in Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, Djibouti and Kenya.

Saba BOKHARI

Saba Bokhari has a Doctorate in Education Policy, Planning and Administration from the United States, and is currently working with UNESCO in the Division of Basic Education. Her responsibilities in the Primary Education include curricula, teacher education and training.

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