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Children and Armed Conflict

Cross-disciplinary Investigations

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Daniel Thomas Cook

    1. Rutgers-Camden, USA

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  2. John Wall

    1. Rutgers-Camden, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Childhood and Youth (SCY)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Broadening the Conversation

    1. Introduction: Broadening the Conversation

      • Daniel Thomas Cook, John Wall
      Pages 1-4

  3. Contextualizing Children’s Armed Conflict Historically

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Girl Soldiers in World War I: Marina Yurlova and Sofja Nowosiełska

      • Margaret R. Higonnet
      Pages 7-21

    3. ‘What Good are the Words?’: Child Memoirs and Holocaust Fiction

      • Adrienne Kertzer
      Pages 22-38

    4. Playing at War: Modern Historical Trends and Debates

      • Gary Cross
      Pages 39-53

  5. Rethinking Children’s Armed Conflict Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Protection of Children in Humanitarian Crises

      • Layal T. E. Sarrouh, Neil Boothby
      Pages 133-150

    3. ‘Playing “Catch with a Hatchet”’: Integrating Children’s Knowledge into Post-War Peacebuilding

      • Siobhan McEvoy-Levy
      Pages 151-170

    4. Child Soldiers: Protection or Responsibility

      • Joseph Rikhof
      Pages 171-188

    5. The Reintegration of Formerly Recruited Girls: A Resilience Approach

      • Michael Wessells
      Pages 189-204

  6. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. Conclusion: Crossing Disciplines

      • John Wall, Daniel Thomas Cook
      Pages 207-217

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 218-250
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About this book

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.

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'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

Editors and Affiliations

  • Rutgers-Camden, USA

    Daniel Thomas Cook, John Wall

About the editors

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.

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