What's NewOpen Position: Programme Director – Children & YouthThe Children and Youth Programme Director will work closely with our field and support staff in Washington, DC and Brussels, Belgium, to provide support to lead SFCG’s work with children, youth and peacebuilding... Next WNCAC MeetingTitle: Coordinating US Assistance to Highly Vulnerable Children in Developing Countries Children and Youth ToolkitSFCG Children and Youth is proud to offer an introductory toolkit for engaging children and youth in conflict transformation.
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WNCAC ResourcesMany of the following resources are available for free on the web. Others may be purchased froom online book sellers. BooksProtectionMichael Wessells. Child Soldiers: From Violence to Protection. Harvard University Press, 2006. Shaheen Sardar Ali, Savitri Goonesekere, Emilio Garcia Mendez and Rebeca Rios-Kohn. Protecting the World's Children: Impact of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Diverse Legal Systems. Jo Boyden and Joanna De Berry. Children and Youth on the Frontline: Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement. Berghahn, 2004. Peter Singer. Children at War: A comprehensive and global look at child soldiers. Pantheon Press, 2005. EducationPeter Williams, with a contribution by Linda Etchart; edited by Roli Degazon-Johnson. Achieving education for all: good practice in crisis and post-conflict reconstruction: a handbook for education policy makers and practitioners in Commonwealth countries. Commonwealth Secretariat, 2006. Peace buildingSiobhán McEvoy-Levy, Ed.Troublemakers or Peacemakers?: Youth and Post Accord Peace Building. University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. Judy Kuriansky, Ed. Beyond bullets and bombs: grassroots peacebuilding between Israelis and Palestinians. Praeger, 2007. ReportsProtection2007 Global Reports of the U.S. Campaign to Stop Child Soldiers The Power of Partnership: Guiding Principles for Partnership to End Violation Against Children during Armed Conflict. Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict Struggle to Survive: Children in Armed Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Women's Commission Reports on Adolescents in Conflict:
The Power of Partnership: Guiding Principles for Partnerships to End Violations Against Children During Armed Conflict. The State of the World’s Children 2007: Women and Children - The Double Dividend of Gender Equality. No Guns, Please: We are Children! Out of War
The Impact of Conflict on Women and Girls in West and Central Africa and the UNICEF response. War, Youth and Aid in Northern Uganda.
Violence Against Children.
Will You Listen? Youth Voices from Conflict Zones.
EducationChildren, Education and War: Reaching Education For All (EFA) Objectives in Countries Affected by Conflict.
Help Us Help Ourselves: Education in the Post-Conflict Transition in Liberia.
Other sourcesYouth in Conflict: Toolkit for Intervention.
Adolescent Programming in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situation: Case Studies
Documentary FilmsThe Forgotten Children of Congo (2007) Soldier Child (1998)
LinksSocial Science Research Council
Interagency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE):
Women's Commission for Women Refugees and Children
U.S. Department of Labor
The George Washington University, Capstone Project
UNICEF
UNICEF Voices of Youth
Equip 3 Resources Online: Search for Common Ground (Washington DC) |
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