WNCAC Resources

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

Books

Protection

Michael Wessells. Child Soldiers: From Violence to Protection. Harvard University Press, 2006.
read it online

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.
read it online

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.

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

Siobhan 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.

Reports

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
read it online

Struggle to Survive: Children in Armed Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
online pdf

Women's Commission Reports on Adolescents in Conflict:

• Untapped Potential: Adolescents Affected by Armed Conflict

• Youth Speak Out: New Voices on the Protection and Participation of Young People Affected by Armed Conflict

• Making the Choice for a Better Life: Promoting the Protection and Capacity of Kosovo's Youth

• Against All Odds: Report by Youth in Northern Uganda

The Power of Partnership: Guiding Principles for Partnerships to End Violations Against Children During Armed Conflict.
July 2006.
online pdf

The State of the World's Children 2007: Women and Children - The Double Dividend of Gender Equality.
read it online

No Guns, Please: We are Children!
read it online

Out of War
read it online

The Impact of Conflict on Women and Girls in West and Central Africa and the UNICEF response.
read it online

War, Youth and Aid in Northern Uganda.
Findings from the Survey of War Affected Youth.
online pdf

Violence Against Children.
United Nations Secretary General Study, 2006
http://www.unviolencestudy.org
online pdf (Summary)

Will You Listen? Youth Voices from Conflict Zones.

Education

Children, Education and War: Reaching Education For All (EFA) Objectives in Countries Affected by Conflict.
World Bank CPR Working Paper. 2002. Marc Sommers.

Help Us Help Ourselves: Education in the Post-Conflict Transition in Liberia.
Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children. 2006.

Other sources

Youth in Conflict: Toolkit for Intervention.
Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation, USAID

Adolescent Programming in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situation: Case Studies
UNICEF
For print copies, email opsen@unicef.org

Documentary Films

The Forgotten Children of Congo (2007)
watch it online

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.

Links

Social Science Research Council
Initiative to pull together all research on children in armed conflict. To learn more, please visit:
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/children/

Interagency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE):
http://www.ineesite.org

Women's Commission for Women Refugees and Children
"The Global Survey on Education in Emergencies" (Feb 2004):

U.S. Department of Labor
International Child Labor Program, Solicitations for Cooperative Agreement Applications for Child Labor Education Initiative Projects:
http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/programs/iclp/main.htm

The George Washington University, Capstone Project
A fully-funded graduate student teams is available to do a several-month consultancy on topics related to refugee education. Contact Georgina Graidage at graidage@gwu.edu. Details on the program available at:

UNICEF
Rights-based Approach to Programme Planning:
http://www.unicef.org/rightsresults/

UNICEF Voices of Youth
Websites dedicated to linking young people with one another:
http://www.unicef.org/voy/voy.html
http://www.unaids.org/en/Issues/Impact_HIV/hiv_in_emergencies.asp

Equip 3 Resources Online:
http://www.equip123.net/equip3/index_new.html .