This article examines ways in which international research on child soldiers might serve to
inform research on gang-involved youth in the United States. In particular, we discuss the …

Academic Abstract Social psychology's disconnect from the vital and urgent questions of
people's lived experiences reveals limitations in the current paradigm. We draw on a related …

Background One in three women in northern Uganda report having suffered from conflict-
related sexual violence (CRSV), including forced marriage and rape. Research on the long …

This paper examines the realities and perspectives of a sample of 60 children born of
wartime rape within the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), and currently living in northern …

Brutal acts of sexual violence were documented on a mass scale during the 1994 Rwandan
genocide. While existing scholarship on sexual violence has significantly increased our …

Globally, the numbers of children living in conflict zones and displaced by war have risen
dramatically over the past two decades, and with this, scholarly attention to the impacts of …

Brutal forms of sexual violence continue to pervade contemporary wars. In many such
contexts, females have been systematically sexually assaulted on a large scale, resulting in …

Rape and other brutal forms of sexual violence are now widely acknowledged as weapons
of war, designed not only to violate and terrorize individual victims but also to denigrate the …

ABSTRACT The Participatory Action Research (PAR) study with Young Mothers in Liberia,
Sierra Leone and northern Uganda which took place from 2006 to 2009 aimed to …

In the 30 years since the adoption of the United Nation's Convention of the Rights of the
Child (CRC), international policy and research has continuously examined the impact of …