Adolescents and war : how youth deal with political violence / edited by Brian K. Barber.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributors -- 1: Glimpsing the complexity of youth and political violence / Brian K Barber -- Part 1: General Treatments Of Youth And Political Violence -- 2: Overview of the empirical literature on adolescents and political violence / Brian K Barber and Julie Mikles Schluterman -- 3: War, military violence, and aggressive development: child, family, and social preconditions / Raija-Leena Punamaki -- 4: Growing up in Israel: lessons on understanding the effects of political violence on children / Michelle Slone -- 5: Youth soldiering: an integrated framework for understanding psychosocial impact / Michael Wessells and Kathleen Kostelny -- Part 2: Specifying The Effects Of Political Violence -- 6: Young people's perceptions of political violence: the case of northern Ireland / Orla Muldoon, Clare Cassidy, and Nichola McCullough -- 7: Measuring adolescent perceived support amidst war and disaster: the multi-sector social support inventory / Christopher M Layne, Jared S Warren, Sterling Hilton, Dahai Lin, Alama Pasalic, John Fulton, Hafiza Pasalic, Ranka Katalinski, and Robert S Pynoos -- 8: Effects of wartime violence on young Bosnians' postwar behaviors: policy contours for the reconstruction period / Robert J McCouch -- Part 3: Expanding The Scope Of Inquiry Into Youth And Political Violence -- 9: Positive and negative psychosocial functioning after political conflict: examining adolescents of the first Palestinian intifada / Brian K Barber and Joseph A Olsen -- 10: Mozambican child soldier life outcome study / Neil Boothby, Jennifer Crawford, and Agostinho Mamade -- 11: Tasting the world: life after wartime for Bosnian teens in Chicago / Stevan Weine, Alma Klebic, Adana Celik, and Mirela Bicic -- 12: Making sense and no sense of war: issues of identity and meaning in adolescents' experience with political conflict / Brian K Barber -- Part 4: Conclusion -- 13: Moving forward with research on adolescents and political violence / Brian K Barber -- Index.

From the Publisher: Hundreds of thousands of children are forced or legally recruited combatants in no fewer than 70 warring parties across the world. In addition to these child soldiers, thousands of youth voluntarily participate in politically related conflict. Why, how, and in what capacities are such large numbers of teenagers involved in war and how are they affected? Adolescents and War brings together world experts in an evidence-based volume to thoroughly understand and document the intricacies of youth who have had substantial involvement in political violence. Contributors argue that the assumption that youth are automatically debilitated by the violence they experience is much too simplistic: effective care for youth must include an awareness of their motives and beliefs, the roles they played in the conflict, their relationships with others, and the opportunities available to them after their experiences with war. The book suggests that the meaning youth make of a conflict may protect them from mental harm. For example, Palestinian teens who were actively engaged in the first Intifada have fared better than Bosnian teens who were virtual sitting ducks to the sniper and grenade launches of the hidden forces during the siege of Sarajevo. Covering youth involvement in conflicts in Afghanistan, Angola, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine, and Bosnia, the volume will be of interest to psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists and should be adopted for courses in social psychology, crisis intervention, and international conflict.

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