These resources are meant to help participants learn and explore the impact of armed conflict on children, and how the conversation about the conflict can change when we center children and our commitments to them. They were prepared to complement the December 14, 2023, event "Is Our Conscience Revolted? A Conversation on Children in War, Grounded in Rights and Faith."
Articles
Aggoune, A., Goonesekere, S., Nelson, J., Rios-Kohn, R., Todres, J. (2020). Faith and children’s rights: A multi-religious study on the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Arigatou International and UNICEF.
Leckman, J., Panter-Brick, C., Salah, R., eds. (2014). Pathways to Peace: The Transformative Power of Children and Families. MIT Press.
Masten, A. S., & Narayan, A. J. (2012). Child development in the context of disaster, war and terrorism: Pathways of risk and resilience. Annual Review of Psychology, 63, 227-257.
Tompkins, R., Vasquez, K., Gerdin, E., Dunham, Y., & Liberman, Z. (2023). Expectations of intergroup empathy bias emerge by early childhood. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication.
Podcast
Yehuda, R. (2017). How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations. On Being with Krista Tippett.
UN Resolutions and Statements
United Nations Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children in Armed Conflict. (November 15, 2023). United Nations Security Council Resolution on the situation in Gaza puts children first.
UNICEF. (2022). 25 Years of Children and Armed Conflict: Taking Action to Protect Children in War.
UN Security Council. (2020). Resolution 2535 [on youth in conflict prevention and resolution].
UN Security Council. (2018). Resolution 2419 [on youth in conflict prevention and resolution].
Graeme Simonson. (2018). The Missing Peace: Independent Progress Study on Youth, Peace, and Security. Mandated by UN Security Council Resolution 2250.
UN Security Council. (2015). Resolution 2250 [on youth, peace, and security].
UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children in Armed Conflict. (2013). The Six Grave Violations Against Children in Armed Conflict: The Legal Foundation.
UNICEF and the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children in Armed Conflict. (2009). Machel Study 10_year Strategic Review: Children and Conflict in a Changing World.
United Nations General Assembly. (1996). Graça Machel Report: The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children.
UN Security Council. (1999). Resolution 1261 [on children in armed conflicts].
UN General Assembly. (1989). Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Websites
Arigatou International. Ethics Education for Children
National Council for the Child (Israel)