Innovation in ducation at Time of Conflict

It is no longer a luxury to talk about Innovation for social change. Innovation is not a slogan that we diffuse to send ourselves comforting messages. Innovation is not a simulation of certain learning techniques to effect operational changes. Innovation is not restricted to productivity, markets or economic growth but rather to the development of human capital, namely children and young people. Innovation leads to social change when learners become aware and engaged in that change.

Yet, in looking at human catastrophes happening today in our regions, in countries namely like Syria, or Libya and Egypt, or any other country that has no tolerance for social change, we ought to realize that we’re far from being even on the right track.
At the very same time, we know, we all know that Education is a Right, and not any kind of right. Education inflicts an entire nation by failing to reach its young people and children.
How can innovation become a catalyst and a solution at time of conflict and when Education is failing to assume its mandate?

This paper aims to address Innovation in Education at time of Conflict, and what it takes to reach positive social change.
It will address the subject from three different perspectives:
1) Role of value-based education, formal & non-formal, in effecting social change
2) Role of Science museums and cultural institutions in fostering societal change
3) Role of the society in being an active partner, advocate and agent for social change

In the end, it aims to conclude with an open-ended approach on to how to contextualize social change according to people needs and aspirations.

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