First-place winner of the Society for Education Studies' 2005 book prize, Education and
Conflict is a critical review of education in an international context. Based on the author's …

Aims and method Drawing on empirical studies and literature reviews, this paper aims to
clarify and qualify the relevance of resilience to youth experiencing political conflict. It …

This paper seeks to bridge the divisive split between advocates of trauma-focused and
psychosocial approaches to understanding and addressing mental health needs in conflict …

From leading researchers, this book presents important advances in understanding how
growing up in a discordant family affects child adjustment, the factors that make certain …

This study examines the number and types of war traumas children face growing up in a war‐
torn country and the relation of such traumatic experiences to their psychosocial …

Ethnic conflict, political violence and wars that presently shape many parts of world have
deep-seated structural causes. In poor and highly indebted countries, economic and …

The atrocities of war have detrimental effects on the development and mental health of
children that have been documented since World War II. To date, a considerable amount of …

This article examines perceptions of childhood and child development and theories of
human responses to adversity that have arisen within the social and medical sciences and …

A group of 155 parents and their preschool children attending Head Start reported on the
children's exposure to community violence, level of distress symptoms, and behavioral …

This book offers a unique angle of vision from which to consider how mental health
professionals can respond effectively to the psychological needs of communities displaced …