Research Handbook of Children and Armed Conflict

Edited by Myriam Denov, Canada Research Chair in Children, Families and Armed Conflict, and Full Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work, McGill University, Canada and Maya Fennig, Assistant Professor of Social Work, The Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Contents:

“How do we make up for lost time?”: Tackling current questions and
realities of children during and following armed conflict 1
Maya Fennig and Myriam Denov

PART I VOICES OF YOUNG PEOPLE IMPACTED BY
ARMED CONFLICT
1 “Days turned into nights, but we just kept on walking” 20
Arsema Teame
2 “What could have been had I not left my family?” Reflections
on war, migration and family separation 29
Bior Leek Ajak

PART II APPROACHES TO CHILDREN AFFECTED BY
ARMED CONFLICT
3 Prioritizing prevention: the value of a locally led approach in
supporting conflict-affected children 38
Michael G. Wessells
4 Participatory action research with youth displaced by war:
how youth know, feel and do peace and security 53
Rebecca Sutton
5 Refusing to be victims: child soldiers in the humanitarian world 67
Sylvie Bodineau
6 Stigma and guilt among the children of amnestied
ex-combatants in northern Uganda: implications for
transitional justice 86
Grace Akello

PART III WAR, DISPLACEMENT, AND MIGRATION
7 ‘They have locked us in’: the impact of liminality and
protracted displacement on the mental health of Eritrean
refugee youth living in Israel 103
Maya Fennig and Myriam Denov
8 Children and parents separated at the U.S. border: a case of
human rights violations in the Global North 123
Lyn Morland and Elaine Kelley
9 Agency, resilience and vulnerability of children in contexts of
conflict-induced displacement 147
Cordula von Denkowski and Ulrike Krause
10 Navigating displacement: trajecto-making among forced
migrant and refugee children and youth 168
Giorgia Donà and Angela Veale

PART IV CRITICAL DISCUSSIONS OF POLICY/PRACTICE
11 Child detention in armed conflict 184
Frédéric Mégret and Isabella Spano
12 The child soldier under international law and policy 200
Mark A. Drumbl
13 Preventing the recruitment and use of children as soldiers:
a perspective on moral injury and the security sector 215
Shelly Whitman
14 Children without parental care in armed conflict settings: right
to family life and alternative care arrangements 232
Mónica Ruiz-Casares
15 Mental health and psychosocial support interventions
for conflict-affected children and adolescents: strategies,
challenges, and recommendations 253
Shoshanna L. Fine and Jura L. Augustinavicius

Index 280