International Perspectives on Youth Conflict and Development

by Colette Daiute, Zeynep F. Beykont, Craig Higson-Smith, Larry Nucci

Overview

International Perspectives on Youth Conflict and Development brings together in one volume essays discussing the social, political, and economic contexts of youth conflict across fourteen countries on seven continents. Distinguished contributors from around the world draw on research and interventions to describe young people's participation in armed conflict, fighting, and social exclusion from the time they enter the public sphere to adulthood, as defined in their local environments.

Case studies include children involved in armed conflict in Mozambique, Angola, the Philippines, and Nigeria; young people exposed to post-war tensions in Bosnia, Croatia, and South Africa, youth in the streets in Brazil and Colombia; Arab and Jewish youth in the ongoing crisis in Israel; children socialized to hate, mistrust, or exclude those of other ethnic, economic, or social identities in the United States, Germany, and Korea; and young people experiencing the dramatic political and economic transition in China. Rather than focusing on character flaws and socio-cognitive deficits or other problems of individual youth, their families, or cultures, the volume examines youth conflict as a social practice embedded in local, national, and international processes.

The volume aims to shift the foundation of youth conflict study from the more typical focus on maturation, behavior, and personality to a characterization of youth as participants in society. It also expands the analysis of youth development to include societal problems such as political instability, unequal access to material resources, racism, and social injustice. Offering new insights about the interdependent spheres of conflict involving young people, this groundbreaking, international compilation describes processes of a violent world rather than of violent youth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195178425
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/30/2006
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Colette Daiute is Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She conducts research on social and cognitive development in challenging circumstances, such as urban public schools and nations involved in violent conflict. In her research and practice, Dr. Daiute has focused on young people's uses of literacy and media as activities that promote the development of society and the development of their own social skills.
Zeynep F. Beykont conducts research on school language policies and educational programs that support the cultural, linguistic, and academic development of ethnic minority and immigrant youth. Over the past twenty years, she has worked as a researcher and consultant in school-, community-, and museum-based programs designed for language minority youth in a variety of countries including the United States, Greece, Turkey, and Australia.
Craig Higson-Smith is a research psychologist specializing in traumatic stress and violence. He has also worked as an anti-apartheid activist and in civil conflict situations in Southern and Eastern Africa. He is currently a trainer and researcher with the South Africa Institute for Traumatic Stress.
Larry Nucci is Professor of Education and Affiliate Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he is Director of the Office for Studies in Moral Development and Education. His research focuses on children's moral and social development. His recent work has examined the impact of culture on children's concepts of privacy and personal prerogative.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Problem of Society in Youth Conflict, iColette Daiute, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA/iSection One: Psycho-social Processes in Youth ConflictEditor's Preface: Psycho-social Processes in Youth Conflict1. Paths to Fillipino Youth Involvement in Violent Conflict, iMadelene A. Sta. Maria, De La Salle University, Phillipines/i2. Extremist Youth in Germany: The Role of History, Development, and Cohort Experience, iWolfgang Edelstein, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany/i3. Growing Up During the Balkan Wars of the 1990's, iSarah Freedman, University of California at Berkeley, USA and Dino Abazovic, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia/i4. Youth Participation in Violence in Nigeria Since the 1980's, iOlayemi Akinwumi, Nasarawa State University in Keffi, Nigeria/i5. Social Hierarchy, Social Conflicts, and Moral Development, iElliot Turiel, University of California at Berkeley, USA/iSection Two: Imagining and Living with the OtherEditor's Preface: Imagining and Living with the Other6. Acceptance and Rejection as a Source of Youth Conflict: The Case of Haifa University in a Divided Society, iRachel Hertz-Lazarowitz, University of Haifa, Israel/i7. Collective Ostracism Among Youth in Korea, iIn Jae Lee, Gwanju National University of Education, Korea/i8. Harassment of Gay and Lesbian Youth and School Violence in America: An Analysis and Directions for Intervention, iStacey S. Horn and Larry Nucci, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States/i9. Social Transformation and Values Conflicts Among Youth in Contemporary China, iGouzhen Cen and Dan Li, Shanghai Teachers University, China/iSection Three: Practices of Conflict and EngagementEditor's Preface: Practices of Conflict and Engagement10. Youth Violence in South Africa: The Impact of Political Transition, iCraig Higson-Smith, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa/i11. Breaking Social Borders: One Road for Becoming Visible to Brazilian Society, iClary Milnitsky, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil/i12. Stories of Conflict and Development in U.S. Public Schools, iColette Daiute, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States/i13. Child Solciers' Participation in Healing and Community Reintegration in Mozambique and Angola, iAlcinda Honwana, Social Science Research Council/i14. Building Citizenship in the Face of Violence: Opportunities for the Agency and Participation of Children in Colombia, iRoger Hart, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Save the Children/UK & International Institute for Educational Development, London, Rocio Mojica, Save the Children/UK/iSection Four: Global Processes Involving YouthEditor's Preface: Global Processes Involving Youth15. Globalism, America's Ghettos, and Black Youth Development, iWilliam, Jr. Cross, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States/i16. Youth Movements and Youth Violence in Nigeria's Oil Delta Region, iCharles Ukeje, Obafemi Awolo University, Ile-Ife Nigeria/i17. Transborder Violence and Undocumented Youth: Extending Cultural-historical Analysis to Transnational Immigration Studies, iJocelyn Solis, University of California, Santa Cruz, United States/iEditor's EpilogueEditor and Author Bios

Editorial Reviews

"...solidly grounded in developmental psychology, appropriately drawing on the work of important researchers and theorists in this area...offer(s) valuable insight for many people, in many roles and many places, who work with youth."—PsycCRITIQUES

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