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Hundreds of thousands of youth worldwide are involved in political violence, either as passive witnesses, voluntary fighters, or coerced soldiers.What are the experiences and needs of these youth? Which agencies and organizations are involved in understanding and assisting them, and how can coordination among these entities be facilitated? How can research on these youth be advanced and integrated into this joint effort to understand them and care for their needs? The Center for the Study of Youth and Political Violence is grounded in the belief that much can be done to both better understand youth experience in political violence and to more fully integrate efforts to assist them in leading constructive lives. |
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The Center is excited to announce the upcoming publication of Adolescents and War: How Youth Deal with Political Violence edited by Center director Brian Barber. Published by Oxford |
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| Neil Boothby and Michael Wessells, members of the Center's Board of Advisors, along with Alison Strang, have edited a collection of essays from a psychological and social ecological perspective on the experiences of children in war titled A World Turned Upside Down. |  |
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In a forthcoming article in the International Journal of Behavioral Development, Center director Brian Barber provides an overview of the Adolescents and Political Violence Project which provided insight into the complexities of youth and political violence. |
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Michael Wessells, Center board member, chronicles in his new book the lives of the 300,000 child soldiers around the world, providing an arresting challenge to the |
Center Welcomes New Associate Faculty
KNOXVILLE, TN (May 1, 2009) - Two faculty members from the Public Health Program in the Department of Nutrition have joined the Center as an associate faculty. Denise Bates and Clea McNeely, assistant professors, bring a wealth of experience and expertise with them in the areas of refugee health and youth programming/adolescent health, respectively. Dr. Bates has been at the University of TN since the fall of 2007, after having spent 2 years as assistant professor at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, TX. Dr. McNeely is a new hire at the University of TN. Her most recent position before coming to UT was as an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. For more information, please see bios and vitas on the Center's Associate Faculty webpage.
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Second Annual Conference Held in
Belfast, Northern Ireland
KNOXVILLE, TN - The Belfast conference (second in the series) was held on October 8-12, 2008. Scholars, 
practitioners, educators, and politicians from the South African community presented on their areas of expertise and participated in formal discussions with one another as well as with invited guests from Northern Ireland. For more info see
CONFERENCES web page.
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Contact Information
Center for the Study of
Youth & Political Violence
2110 Terrace Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37916
Voice: 865–974–2269
Fax: 865–946–0990
youthviolence@tennessee.edu