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1.

The Psychological Effects of War and Violence on Children » Read Now
by Nathan A. Fox, Lewis A. Leavitt. 374 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library
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International Law concerning Child Civilians in Armed Conflict » Read Now
by Jenny Kuper. 284 pgs.

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Each year, many thousands of child civilians are killed, injured, or otherwise physically and psychologically harmed as a result of armed conflicts. There is a considerable body of international law which aims to minimise the harm inflicted on these children, and yet it is little known, or observed...
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Each year, many thousands of child civilians are killed, injured, or otherwise physically and psychologically harmed as a result of armed conflicts. There is a considerable body of international law which aims to minimise the harm inflicted on these children, and yet it is little known, or observed. This book is the first major international legal text to focus exclusively on child civilians. It addresses three main questions: (1) what are the precise rules incorporated in the pertinent body of law, and what are its implementation mechanisms? (2) how effective is it (with reference to recent conflicts involving Iraq) in helping to achieve some protection for child civilians? and (3) can it be rendered more effective? The book concludes by proposing a number of strategies to strengthen the impact of the applicable law. As the first detailed analysis of the surprisingly large body of law relevant to the treatment of child civilians, this book is an important contribution to a topical and highly charged human rights issue.
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The Changing Nature of Armed Conflict and Its Implications for Children: The Graca Machel/UN Study on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children, in Peace and Conflict » Read Now
by Michael G. Wessells. 14 pgs.

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...Health and nutrition . In war zones, children suffer the synergistic effect...Kostelny, 1996). In many war zones, however, children experience multiple stressors...never...
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War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things, in Peace and Conflict » Read Now
by Deborah Du Nann Winter. 14 pgs.

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...the psychosocial impacts of war on children, the Study did not link their...research on the impact of the Gulf War on childrens health shows that the infant...on the...
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The Effects of Armed Conflict on Girls and Women, in Peace and Conflict » Read Now
by Valerie A. Whyte. 12 pgs.

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...caregivers, when they are affected by war, so are children. In many cultures, mothers...reconciliation processes related to childrens war experiences, and...
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Toward Mediating the Impact of Forced Migration and Displacement among Children Affected by Armed Conflict, in Journal of International Affairs » Read Now
by Beverlee Bruce. 24 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...assess the circumstances faced by children in war zones. The council also raises...streets and playgrounds is how children in war zones are conscripted. In other...Human...
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Working in Early Childhood Settings with Children Who Have Experienced Refugee or War-Related Trauma, in Australian Journal of Early Childhood » Read Now
by Margaret Sims, Jackie Hayden, Glen Palmer, Teresa Hutchins. 6 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...childhood settings with children who have experienced refugee or war-related trauma...recent decades, war has affected many...displaced people are children, who are...
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Caution: Children at War, in Parameters » Read Now
by P.W. Singer. 17 pgs.

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The Protection of Children and the Quest for Truth and Justice in Sierra Leone, in Journal of International Affairs » Read Now
by Ilene Cohn. 35 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...harnessed for the benefit of war-affected children in Sierra Leone and elsewhere...the deplorable act of using children in war should be prosecuted in an...
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Child Soldiers in Africa: A Disaster for Future Families, in International Journal on World Peace » Read Now
by Elliott P. Skinner. 16 pgs.

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...report for the United Nations on children and war, rightly cautioned against viewing...in African societies, and the war against children among the police forces in...
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Youth in Crisis: The Well-Being of Middle Eastern Youth and Adolescents during War and Peace, in Journal of Youth and Adolescence » Read Now
by Salman Elbedour. 18 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...1992). The Psychology of Children of War. Unpublished doctoral thesis...A. (1993). The effect of war on Israeli children. In Leavitt, L., and Fox...The Psychological...
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Daddy's Gone to War: The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children » Read Now
by William M. Tuttle Jr. 368 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Looking out a second-story window of her family's quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside. Most American children on the home...
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Looking out a second-story window of her family's quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside. Most American children on the home front during the Second World War saw the enemy only in newsreels and the pages of Life Magazine, but from Pearl Harbor on, "the war"--with its blackouts, air raids, and government rationing--became a dramatic presence in all of their lives. Thirty million Americans relocated, 3,700,000 homemakers entered the labor force, sparking a national debate over working mothers and latchkey children, and millions of enlisted fathers and older brothers suddenly disappeared overseas or to far-off army bases. By the end of the war, 180,000 American children had lost their fathers. In "Daddy's Gone to War", William M. Tuttle, Jr., offers a fascinating and often poignant exploration of wartime America, and one of generation's odyssey from childhood to middle age. The voices of the home front children are vividly present in excerpts from the 2,500 letters Tuttle solicited from men and women across the country who are now in their fifties and sixties. From scrap-collection drives and Saturday matinees to the atomic bomb and V-J Day, here is the Second World War through the eyes of America's children. Women relive the frustration of always having to play nurses in neighborhood war games, and men remember being both afraid and eager to grow up and go to war themselves. (Not all were willing to wait. Tuttle tells of one twelve year old boy who strode into an Arizona recruiting office and declared, "I don't need my mother's consent...I'm a midget.") Former home front children recall as though it were yesterday the pain of saying good-bye, perhaps forever, to an enlisting father posted overseas and the sometimes equally unsettling experience of a long-absent father's return. A pioneering effort to reinvent the way we look at history and childhood, "Daddy's Gone to War" views the experiences of ordinary children through the lens of developmental psychology. Tuttle argues that the Second World War left an indelible imprint on the dreams and nightmares of an American generation, not only in childhood, but in adulthood as well. Drawing on his wide-ranging research, he makes the case that America's wartime belief in democracy and its rightful leadership of the Free World, as well as its assumptions about marriage and the family and the need to get ahead, remained largely unchallenged until the tumultuous years of the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam and Watergate. As the hopes and expectations of the home front children changed, so did their country's. In telling the story of a generation, Tuttle provides a vital missing piece of American cultural history.
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Through the Eyes of Innocents: Children Witness World War II » Read Now
by Emmy E. Werner. 271 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Drawing on diaries, letters and journals kept by children, Emmy Werner shows the universality of war experience. Children from many countries are represented through some 150 eye-witness accounts, revealing their endurance, and how they were changed forever by events beyond their control.
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The Children's Civil War » Read Now
by James Marten. 370 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Children--white and black, northern and southern--endured a vast and varied range of experiences during the Civil War. Children celebrated victories and mourned defeats, tightened their belts and widened their responsibilities, took part in patriotic displays and suffered shortages and hardships...
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Children--white and black, northern and southern--endured a vast and varied range of experiences during the Civil War. Children celebrated victories and mourned defeats, tightened their belts and widened their responsibilities, took part in patriotic displays and suffered shortages and hardships, fled their homes to escape enemy invaders and snatched opportunities to run toward the promise of freedom.
Offering a fascinating look at how children were affected by our nation's greatest crisis, James Marten examines their toys and games, their literature and schoolbooks, the letters they exchanged with absent fathers and brothers, and the hardships they endured. He also explores children's politicization, their contributions to their homelands' war efforts, and the lessons they took away from the war. Drawing on the childhoods of such diverse Americans as Jane Addams, Booker T. Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt, and on sources that range from diaries and memoirs to children's "amateur newspapers, " Marten examines the myriad ways in which the Civil War shaped the lives of a generation of American children.
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"We Interrupt This Program to Show You a Bombing": Children and Schools Respond to Televised War, in Childhood Education » Read Now
by Jane C. Rohrer. 5 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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War and Children (1945) » Read Now
by Anna Freud, Dorothy T. Burlingham. 191 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library