These beautifully heartrending photographs show how war disrupts schools, childhoods and education long after the fighting stops

Diego Ibarra Sánchez’s World Press Photo-winning project looks beyond the battlefield to reveal how conflict disrupts schools, fractures childhoods and threatens the futures of entire communities.

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