• Introduction



• 1: Glimpsing the Complexity of Youth and Political Violence - Brian K. Barber


• Part I. General Treatments of Youth and Political Violence


• 2: An Overview of the Empirical Literature on Adolescents and Political Violence - Brian K. Barber and Julie Mikles Schluterman


• 3: Why War and Military Violence Can Increase the Risk for Aggressive Child Behavior? Child- and Family-Related Issues - Raija-Leena Punamÿki


• 4: Growing up in Israel: Lessons on Understanding the Effects of Political Violence on Children - Michelle Slone


• 5: Youth Soldiering: An Integrated Framework for Understanding Psychosocial Impact - Michael Wessells and Kathleen Kostelny


• Part II. Specifying the Effects of Political Violence


• 6: Young People's Perceptions of Political Violence: The Case of Northern Ireland - Orla Muldoon, Clare Cassidy, and Nichola McCullough


• 7: Measuring Adolescent Perceived Support amidst War and Disaster: The Multi-Sector Social Support Inventory - Christopher Layne and colleagues


• 8: The Effects of Wartime Violence on Young Bosnians' Postwar Behaviors: Policy Contours for the Reconstruction Period - Robert J. McCouch


• Part III. Expanding the Scope of Inquiry into Youth and Political Violence


• 9: Positive and Negative Psychosocial Functioning after Political Conflict: Examining Adolescents of the First Palestinian Intifada - Brian K. Barber and Joseph A. Olsen


• 10: Mozambican Child Soldier Life Outcome Study - Neil Boothby, Jennifer Crawford, and Agostinho Mamade


• 11: Tasting the World: Life after Wartime for Bosnian Teens in Chicago - Steven Weine and colleagues


• 12: Making Sense and No Sense of War: Issues of Identity and Meaning in Adolescents Experience with Political Conflict - Brian K. Barber


• Conclusion


• 13: Moving Forward with Research on Adolescents and Political Violence - Brian K. Barber