They are a tenacious lot and they know that education is the only way out of the mess.

Teaching in the time of war
A school is blown up. Several children are dead. Shock and awe rip the community apart. Anger rises. Retaliation is planned. Surviving children are scarred for life and yet the school has to reopen, classes have to go on and life brought back to norm al.

It is under these circumstances that Prof. Mohan B. Menon, Acting Director and Chief, Education and Planning Division of UNRWA (United Nations Relief And Works Agency For Palestine Refugees In The Near East), a Unesco project works. It is an abnormal situation that he has to deal with in his long career in the field of education across the globe.