Children and Armed Conflict / Studies in Childhood and Youth (PDF)

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.

'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