International Perspectives on Youth Conflict and Development
Colette Daiute, Zeynep Beykont, Craig Higson-Smith, and Larry Nucci
Abstract
International Perspectives on Youth Conflict and Development brings together essays discussing the social, political, and economic contexts of youth conflict across fourteen countries on seven continents. Contributors from around the world draw on research and interventions in order to describe young people's participation in armed conflict, fighting and social exclusion, from the time they enter the public sphere to adulthood, as defined in their local environments. Case studies include children involved in armed conflict in Mozambique, Angola, the Philippines, and Nigeria; young ... More
International Perspectives on Youth Conflict and Development brings together essays discussing the social, political, and economic contexts of youth conflict across fourteen countries on seven continents. Contributors from around the world draw on research and interventions in order to describe young people's participation in armed conflict, fighting and social exclusion, from the time they enter the public sphere to adulthood, as defined in their local environments. Case studies include children involved in armed conflict in Mozambique, Angola, the Philippines, and Nigeria; young people exposed to postwar tensions in Bosnia, Croatia, and South Africa; youth in the streets in Brazil and Colombia; Arab and Jewish youth in the ongoing crisis in Israel; children socialized to hate, mistrust, or exclude those of other ethnic, economic, or social identities in the United States, Germany, and Korea; and young people experiencing the dramatic political and economic transition in China. Rather than focusing on character flaws and socio-cognitive deficits or other problems of individual youth, their families, or cultures, the volume examines youth conflict as a social practice embedded in local, national, and international processes. The volume aims to shift the foundation of youth conflict study from the more typical focus on maturation, behavior, and personality, to a characterization of youth as participants in society. It also expands the analysis of youth development to include societal problems such as political instability, unequal access to material resources, racism, and social injustice. Offering insights about the interdependent spheres of conflict involving young people, this compilation describes processes of a violent world rather than of violent youth.
Keywords:
youth conflict,
armed conflict,
young people,
fighting,
social exclusion,
public sphere,
adulthood,
local environment,
children,
post-war tensions
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2006 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195178425 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2010 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178425.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Colette Daiute, editor
CUNY Graduate Center
Zeynep Beykont, editor
Bogazici Universitesi
Craig Higson-Smith, editor
Human Sciences Research Council
Larry Nucci, editor
University of Illinois, Chicago
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