ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the conditions that need to be addressed if educational administration is to truly be internationalised, that is, including educational administrators “in extremis” in communities coping with conditions of continual violence – physical, emotional, psychological, or social – where massive human rights violations are taking place. It identifies recommendations developed in non-government organisations and academic literature for school heads and teachers during crisis and wartime, and the difficult circumstances of reconstruction after sufficient peace is established. The challenges for teachers and heads in “failed” or “collapsed” states like Syria and Yemen include a complex set of factors that produce an extremely violent and insecure environment of war, terrorism, mortality, epidemics. For educational administration has a potential larger research and teaching role to fulfil that can better equip staff where reconstruction can take place with affected community and youth and in refugee havens.
