Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms

Introduction
Jo Boyden and Joanna de Berry

PART I: THE CONTECTS OF WAR

Chapter 1. Separated Children: Care and Support in Context
Gillian Mann

Chapter 2. Cultural Disruption and the Care of Infants in Post-war Mozambique
Victor Igreja

PART II: VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS

Chapter 3. The Sexual Vulnerability of Adolescent Girls during Civil War in Teso, Uganda
Joanna de Berry

Chapter 4. A Neglected Perspective: Adolescent Girls' Experiences of the Kosovo Conflict of 1999
Aisling Swaine with Thomas Feeny

PART 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 Soldiers
Jessica Schafer

Chapter 6. Girls with Guns: Narrating the Experience of War of FRELIMO's 'Female Detachment'
Harry G. West

Chapter 7. Children, Impunity and Justice: Some Dilemmas from Northern Uganda
Andrew Mawson

PART IV: CHILDREN'S NARRATIVES

Chapter 8. Children in the Grey Spaces Between War and Peace: The Uncertain Truth of Memory Acts
Krisjon Rae Olson

Chapter 9. Beyond Struggle and Aid: Children's Identities in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Jordan
Jason Hart

PART V: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND METHODS

Chapter 10. Researching Young People's Experiences of War: Participatory Methods and the Trauma Discourse in Angola
Carola Eyber and Alastair Ager

Chapter 11. Fluid Research Fields: Studying Excombatant Youth in the Aftermath of the Liberian Civil War
Mats Utas

Chapter 12. Anthropology Under Fire: Ethics, Researchers and Children in War
Jo Boyden

Postscript

Chapter 13. 'Where Wings Take Dream': on Children in the Work of War and the War of Work
Pamela Reynolds

Notes on Contributors
Index

About the Author

Jo Boyden is a senior research officer at the Refugee Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.

Reviews

“This deeply disturbing but brilliant collection will be a challenge to a burgeoning literature on children in war situations … [especially] to those who wish to make a black and white distinction between children and adults.” • Children, Youth and Environments