About the Director
Dr. Brian K. Barber
Brian K. Barber, Ph.D is the founding director of the Center for the Study of Youth and Political Violence, professor of child and family studies, and adjunct professor of psychology, all at the University of Tennessee (USA). He is also Technical Advisor to the World Health Organization and to UNICEF.
Dr. Barber researches adolescent development in social context in Africa, Asia, the Balkans, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. He specializes in the study of adolescent development in contexts of political violence, with a particular focus on youth from the Gaza Strip, Palestine, and Sarajevo, Bosnia. His work has been supported by the U.S. National Institute for Mental Health, the Social Science Research Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Jerusalem Fund, and the United States Institute for Peace.
Dr. Barber publishes his work regularly in leading psychology and family sociology journals and is the author of Intrusive Parenting: How Psychological Control affects Children and Adolescents (2002, American Psychological Association Press). He has forthcoming books on adolescents and political violence with Palgrave/MacMillan Press and Oxford University Press.
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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