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Berghahn Books Children and Youth on the Front Line Ethnography Armed Conflict and Displacement 2004 Edition by Jo Boyden, Joanna de Berry
War leads not just to widespread death but also to extensive displacement, overwhelming fear, and economic devastation. It weakens social ties, threatens household survival and undermines the family's capacity to care for its most vulnerable members. Every year it kills and maims countless numbers of young people, undermines thousands of others psychologically and deprives many of the economic, educational, health and social opportunities which most of us consider essential for children's effective growth and well being.Based on detailed ethnographic description and on young people's own accounts, this volume provides insights into children's experiences as both survivors and perpetrators of violence. It focuses on girls who have been exposed to sexual exploitation and abuse, children who head households or are separated from their families, displaced children and young former combatants who are attempting to adjust to their changed circumstances following the cessation of conflict. In this sense, the volume bears witness to the grim effects of warfare and displacement on the young.Nevertheless, despite the abundant evidence of suffering, it maintains that children are not the passive victims of conflict but engage actively with the conditions of war, an outlook that challenges orthodox research perspectives that rely heavily on medicalized notions of 'victim' and 'trauma.' Table of contents :- AcknowledgementsList of AcronymsIntroductionJo Boyden and Joanna de BerryPART I: THE CONTECTS OF WARChapter 1. Separated Children: Care and Support in ContextGillian MannChapter 2. Cultural Disruption and the Care of Infants in Post-war MozambiqueVictor IgrejaPART II: VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLSChapter 3. The Sexual Vulnerability of Adolescent Girls during Civil War in Teso, UgandaJoanna de BerryChapter 4. A Neglected Perspective: Adolescent Girls' Experiences of the Kosovo Conflict of 1999Aisling Swaine with Thomas FeenyPART III: WHAT IS A CHILD?Chapter 5. The Use of Patriarchal Imagery in the Civil War in Mozambique and its Implications for the Reintegration of Child SoldiersJessica SchaferChapter 6. Girls with Guns: Narrating the Experience of War of FRELIMO's 'Female Detachment'Harry G. WestChapter 7. Children, Impunity and Justice: Some Dilemmas from Northern UgandaAndrew MawsonPART IV: CHILDREN'S NARRATIVESChapter 8. Children in the Grey Spaces Between War and Peace: The Uncertain Truth of Memory ActsKrisjon Rae OlsonChapter 9. Beyond Struggle and Aid: Children's Identities in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in JordanJason HartPART V: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND METHODSChapter 10. Researching Young People's Experiences of War: Participatory Methods and the Trauma Discourse in AngolaCarola Eyber and Alastair AgerChapter 11. Fluid Research Fields: Studying Excombatant Youth in the Aftermath of the Liberian Civil WarMats UtasChapter 12. Anthropology Under Fire: Ethics, Researchers and Children in WarJo BoydenPostscriptChapter 13. 'Where Wings Take Dream': on Children in the Work of War and the War of WorkPamela ReynoldsNotes on ContributorsIndex