“This is a summary of a report that was written and researched by Krijn Peters with Edwin Dorbor (interpreter and research assistant) and Sophie Laws (research adviser) in 2000, and edited by Bridget Pettit and Celia Petty. The research... Read more
Research
Betancourt, T.S. and Ettien, A. (2010). Working Paper No. 2010-17, Florence, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. Focusing on reintegration of children affected by war in Sierra Leone, the f indings of this study “support the need to adopt a broader... Read more
Journal article by Susan Shepler in Journal of Human Rights, 4:197–211, 2005. “This article describes how the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other international child rights instruments are implicated in the postwar reintegration of child... Read more
A paper by Susan McKay, R.N., Ph.D, and Dyan Mazurana, Ph.D.. (Undated, but circa 1999-2000). Read more
A report prepared for Psychology Beyond Borders, by Theresa Betancourt, ScD, MA, Ivelina Borisova, MEd, Julia Rubin-Smith, MSPH, Tara Gingerich, JD, MA, Timothy Williams, MSW, Jessica Agnew-Blais, BA of The Research Program on Children and Global Adversity François-Xavier Bagnoud... Read more
A paper by Susan McKay, Malia Robinson, Maria Gonsalves and Miranda Worthern that outlines the considerable challenges facing girl mothers leaving fighting forces who seek to reintegrate into their communities in southern and western Africa. Often stigmatised and rejected... Read more
A Summary of the Research Findings on Girls and Armed Conflict from CIDA’s Child Protection Research Fund, by Myriam Denov, PhD. Read more
HiCN Working Paper No. 22 by Christopher Blattman and Jeannie Annan. The study “assesses the impacts of participation in civil war using an original survey from Uganda, where a rebel group’s recruitment method provides arguably exogenous variation in conscription.... Read more
A research paper by Eunice Opio, published on the Child Soldiers International (formerly Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers) psychosocial webpage of a qualitative study which reviews the social, emotional and psychological outcome of 69 Ugandan children... Read more
Research paper by Christopher Blattman and Jeannie Annan. Published in Robert Muggah, ed. 2008. Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Dealing with Fighters in the Aftermath of War. Routledge. 103–126. Read more
