Ten Year Armed Conflict and Its Impact on Children Education

The ten year armed conflict has numerous consequences for school going children. They are mentally and physically affected even after the armed conflict. Considering this aspect, the study was proposed with the how did school going children experience their education and life during the ten years long armed conflict. To explore the experience of them, a phenomenological case study was carried out in Gorkha district with two male and two female children of aged under 18 during the 10 years armed conflict in Nepal. In depth interview was carried out and the information from in depth interview was analyzed by exploring the themes. The findings of the study showed that several reasons like extreme poverty, social exclusion, and discrimination, parental involvement in CPN (Maoist), parents’ profession, and torture from both the state security and the CPN (Maoist) compelled the research participants to get affected by the conflict. For the involvement of their parents in arms conflict, they had the responsibility of their home that resulted them into being out of formal education.