Resources

Many of the following resources are available for free on the web. Others may be purchased froom online book sellers.

Protection

• Michael Wessells. Child Soldiers: From Violence to Protection. Harvard University Press, 2006.
  http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WESCHI.html
• 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.
  http://www.unicef.org/policyanalysis/index_41899.html
• 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.
  http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=4455

Education

• Peter 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 building

• Siobhán 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.

Protection

• 2007 Global Reports of the U.S. Campaign to Stop Child Soldiers.
  http://www.child-soldiers.org
• The Power of Partnership: Guiding Principles for Partnership to End Violation Against Children during Armed Conflict. Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict.
  http://www.watchlist.org/advocacy/policystatements/the_power_of_partnership.php
• Struggle to Survive: Children in Armed Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  http://www.watchlist.org/reports/pdf/dr_congo.report.20060426.pdf
• Women's Commission Reports on Adolescents in Conflict:
  • Untapped Potential: Adolescents Affected by Armed Conflict.
    http://www.womenscommission.org/pdf/adol2.pdf
  • Youth Speak Out: New Voices on the Protection and Participation of Young People Affected by Armed Conflict.
    http://www.womenscommission.org/pdf/cap_ysofinal_rev.pdf
  • Making the Choice for a Better Life: Promoting the Protection and Capacity of Kosovo's Youth.
    http://www.womenscommission.org/pdf/yu_adol.pdf
  • Against All Odds (Report by Youth in Northern Uganda).
    http://www.womenscommission.org/pdf/ug.pdf
• The Power of Partnership: Guiding Principles for Partnerships to End Violations Against Children During Armed Conflict.
  July 2006.
  http://www.watchlist.org/advocacy/policystatements/the_power_of_partnership.pdf
• The State of the World’s Children 2007: Women and Children - The Double Dividend of Gender Equality.
  http://www.unicef.org/sowc07/index.php
• No Guns, Please: We are Children!
  http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_4420.html
• Out of War.
  http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_4422.html
• The Impact of Conflict on Women and Girls in West and Central Africa and the UNICEF response.
  http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_25262.html
• War, Youth and Aid in Northern Uganda. Findings from the Survey of War Affected Youth.
  http://www.sfcg.org/programmes/children/ugayouth.pdf
• Violence Against Children. (United Nations Secretary General Study.) 2006.
  http://www.unviolencestudy.org
  http://www.crin.org/docs/VAC_Summary.pdf (Summary)
• Will You Listen? Youth Voices from Conflict Zones. Machel Study 10-Year Strategic Review. 2007.
  http://www.unicef.org/voy/media/Will_You_Listen_090607.pdf

Education

• Marc Sommers. Children, Education and War: Reaching Education For All (EFA) Objectives in Countries Affected by Conflict. World Bank CPR Working Paper. 2002.
  http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/ESSD/sdvext.nsf/67ByDocName/
  ChildrenEducationandWarReachingEducationForAllEFAObjectivesinCountries
  AffectedbyConflict/$FILE/Children+Education+and+War.pdf
• Help Us Help Ourselves: Education in the Post-Conflict Transition in Liberia. Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children. 2006.
  http://www.womenscommission.org/pdf/lr_ed.pdf

• Youth in Conflict: Toolkit for Intervention. Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation, USAID.
  http://www.dec.org/pdf_docs/PNADB336.pdf
• Adolescent Programming in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situation: Case Studies. UNICEF.
  http://www.unicef.org/adolescence/index_23555.html
  For print copies, email opsen@unicef.org

• The Forgotten Children of Congo. 2007.
  http://documentaries.documentaryfilms.net/The-Forgotten-Children-of-Congo.html
• Soldier Child. 1998. This documentary directed by Neil Abramson examines the rise and fall, as well as the reach and long-lasting effects, of religious zealot Joseph Kony in northern Uganda. Available at Blockbuster and Netflix.