however recent reports highlight both the continued role and the changing nature of conflict in obstructing the achievement of the education millennium development goals mdgs and efa targets unicef unesco world bank as a mckinsey report notes the quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers barber and mourshed papers submitted for the sixth commonwealth research symposium on teacher mobility recruitment and migration held on june in addis ababa ethiopia suggested that there is very limited information on the role and status of teachers in emergencies including teachers who are forced to migrate specifically informants called for more studies into teacher development and training teacher competencies teacher retention teaching for psychosocial wellbeing the benefits of teacher trainingcapacity building the morale and compensation of teachers teacher certification in difficult environments teacher management in emergencies and the identity of teachers inee c