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

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

Current price: $63.24
Publication Date: June 21st, 2011
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
9780230274433
Pages:
250
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Description

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.

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.