Children and Armed Conflict: Cross-disciplinary Investigations(Studies in Childhood and Youth)

Exploring the experiences of children encountering war and armed conflict, this book draws upon history, ethnography, sociology, literature, media studies, psychology, public policy, and other disciplines to address children as soldiers, refugees, and peace-builders within their social, cultural, and political contexts.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Broadening the Conversation;  D.T.Cook  & J.Wall PART I: CONTEXTUALIZING CHILDREN'S ARMED CONFLICT HISTORICALLY Girl Soldiers in World War;  M.R.Higonnet 'What Good are the Words?': Child Memoirs and Holocaust Fiction; A.Kertzer War Toys and the Transformation of Children's Introduction to International Violence; G.Cross PART II: UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN'S ARMED CONFLICT EXPERIENCE Personal and Collective Psychosocial Resilience: The Implications for Children and Families who are Involved in War and Disasters; R.Williams  & J.Drury Effects of War Experiences among Internally Displaced Children in South Darfur: Clinical Implications;  D.Morgos Community Politics in Refugee Contexts: Young People, Networks and Decision-Making;  C.Clark-Kazak Children as Victims of War: The Moral Economy of Care; C.Watters PART III: RETHINKING CHILDREN'S ARMED CONFLICT POLICY Playing Catch with a Hatchet: Integrating Children's Knowledge into Post-War Peacebuilding; S.McEvoy-Levy Protection ofChildren in Disaster and War;  L.T.E.Sarrouh  & N.Boothby Child Soldiers: Protection or Responsibility;  J.Rikhof The Reintegration of Formerly Recruited Girls: A Resilience Approach; M.Wessells Conclusion: Crossing Disciplines;  J.Wall  & D.T.Cook Index

About the Author :
NEIL BOOTHBY is the Allan Rosenfield Professor of Forced Migration and Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, USA CHRISTINA R. CLARK-KAZAK is Assistant Professor in Refugee and Humanitarian Affairs at York University, USA GARY CROSS is Distinguished Professor of Modern History at Pennsylvania State University, USA JOHN DRURY is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology at the School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK MARGARET R. HIGONNET is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut, and an Affiliate of Harvard University's Centre for European Studies, USA ADRIENNE KERTZER is Associate Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, and Professor of English at the University of Calgary, Canada, where she has also served as Head, Department of English DOROTHY MORGOS is a Post-Doctoral Psychology Fellow at the Yale University School of Medicine, Child Study Centre, USA SIOBHAN MCEVOY-LEVY is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Peace Studies Program at Butler University, Indianapolis, USA LAYAL T.E. SARROUH is Wyman Scholar and a Mailman School of Public Health Scholar at Columbia University, USA CHARLES WATTERS is Professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, USA MICHAEL WESSELLS is Professor at Columbia University in the Program on Forced Migration and Health and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Randolph-Macon College, USA RICHARD WILLIAMS is Professor of Mental Health Strategy in the Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care in the University of Glamorgan, UK and a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with the Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board.

Review :
'This book is indispensible for anyone interested in the problem of children in war. It is a strikingly fresh collection of essays that brings a strong empirical and multidisciplinary approach to an issue dominated by ideology and rhetoric. Drawing on contemporary and historical examples from North America, Northern Ireland, Russia, France, Darfur, Sierra Leone and elsewhere the essays portray the lives of children in complex situations of armed conflict where they emerge as fully human heroes, soldiers, victims, agents, sufferers, patriots and perpetrators. The book is a splendid contribution to the study of children and childhood.' - Professor David Rosen, Fairleigh Dickson University, USA