The blog author’s aim for attending the UKFIET conference was to share findings and lessons from a study on school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) from the perspectives of children with disabilities in Sierra Leone.
His second objective was to learn from what other researchers and practitioners were doing to understand violence in schools and strategies for tackling it. He found the presentations at UKFIET on violence highlighted similar issues. For example, presentations “linked violence in schools with poor classroom practices, exclusion of marginalised learners, absenteeism and poor academic performance.”
One of his conclusion was: “I was disappointed by the fact that the experiences of children with disabilities concerning school violence was not given more prominence at the conference.”