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Youth in Conflict and Peacebuilding gives weight to the role of youth in peacebuilding, with specific reference to the processes of mobilisation, reintegration and reconciliation. Ozerdem and Podder reject the pejorative notion of youth as a security threat, a notion that still pervades the literature and practice of peacebuilding. The main objective of this study is, therefore, to provide a new conceptualisation of youth as a harbinger of peace, whether at an international or local level. By adopting a multi-disciplinary approach that identifies key themes in the analysis of its two main case studies of Liberia and Mindanao in the Philippines, this study maps out the debate surrounding the role of youth in post-conflict environments and draws from a wide range of cross-cultural examples. The failure to recognise youths as political actors can result in their contribution to peacebuilding being ignored, wasted and, at best, under-utilised. In recognising their agency as legitimate political actors, Ozerdem and Podder address the need for a comprehensive understanding of their valuable contribution to peacebuilding.

This edited volume explores human security challenges in the context of Turkey. Turkey occupies a critical geopolitical position between Europe, the Middle East and the Caucasus. It is an important peace-broker in regional conflicts and a leading country in peacekeeping operations, and has been a generous donor for disaster response around the world. However, Turkey is also facing a number of fundamental sociocultural and development challenges and its internal stability is affected by a protracted armed conflict based on Kurdish separatism. In other words, Turkey is at a crossroads

"Peace in Turkey 2023: The Question of Human Security and Conflict Transformation, by Tim Jacoby and Alpaslan Özerdem, explores how the Kurdish conflict could possibly be transformed towards positive peace. Using scenario-writing derived from peace theory to highlight new ways to consider political violence in Turkey, this study will appeal to both specialist and non-specialist students and teachers from a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds"--

This edited volume explores human security challenges in the context of Turkey. Turkey occupies a critical geopolitical position between Europe, the Middle East and the Caucasus. It is an important peace-broker in regional conflicts and a leading country in peacekeeping operations, and has been a generous donor for disaster response around the world. However, Turkey is also facing a number of fundamental sociocultural and development challenges and its internal stability is affected by a protracted armed conflict based on Kurdish separatism. In other words, Turkey is at a crossroads.

By adopting a holistic multi-disciplinary approach which identifies key themes and case studies, this book sets the scene for the debate surrounding sustainable agriculture in post-conflict environments. Seeing 'fixing' agriculture as more than merely a technical matter, the volume focuses on this critical post-conflict challenge with social, political and cultural characteristics and consequences as well as the obvious economic ones.

The long road home: conceptual debates on recruitment experiences and reintegration outcomes / Alpaslan Özerdem and Sukanya Podder -- Why do children fight? Motivations and the mode of recruitment / Scott Gates -- Child soldier recruitment in the Liberian civil wars: individual motivations and rebel group tactics / Sukanya Podder -- Group cohesion and coercive recruitment: young combatants and the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone / Krijn Peters -- Girl soldiers in Guatemala / Wenche Hauge -- Resilience amidst risks for recruitment: a case study of 'at risk' children in Colombia / Ryan Burgess -- How voluntary? The role of community in youth participation in Muslim Mindanao / Alpaslam Özerdem and Sukanya Podder -- Neither child nor soldier: contested terrains in identity, victimcy and survival / Sukanya Podder -- 'But I'm a man': The imposition of childhood on and denial of identity and economic opportunity to Afghanistan's child soldiers / Steven A. Zyck -- Socialization and reintegration challenges: a case study of the Lord's Resistance Army / Lotte Vermeij -- Social navigation and power in post-conflict Sierra Leone: reflections from a former child soldier turned bike rider / Myriam Denov -- Victimcy as social navigation: from the toolbox of Liberian child soldiers / Mats Utas -- Mozambique life outcome study: how did child soldiers turn out as adults? / Neil Boothby -- Exclusion or reintegration: child soldiers in Angola / Jaremey R. McMullin -- Child soldier reintegration in Sudan: a practitioner's field experience / Patrick Halton -- Reintegration of child soldiers in Nepal: grassroots reflections / Dilli Raj Binandi and Pratisha Dewan Binadi -- Mapping child soldier reintegration outcomes: exploring the linkages / Alpaslam Özerdem and Sukanya Podder

Participatory research methodologies have been used since the 1970s as a tool to garner accurate information about communities in which development practitioners operate. Their usefulness as a collection of research techniques has been evident in academic disciplines such as politics, sociology, anthropology and economics, among others. This informative text assesses the use of participatory methods as a research tool in the contexts of development and reconstruction after conflict and disasters by identifying cross-cutting themes and establishing a comparative lessons-learned framework that can help inform future uses of them, both for practitioners and researchers. More importantly, rather than adopting a prescriptive perspective, this book provides a critical analysis of such methodologies. Specifically, the reader will benefit from the collation of the experiences of those who utilize participatory research methods in different countries and contexts, and from different academic and practitioner perspectives.

"This informative text assesses the use of participatory methods as a research tool in the contexts of development and reconstruction after conflict and disasters by identifying cross-cutting themes and establishing a comparative lessons-learned framework that can help inform future uses of them, both for practitioners and researchers. More importantly, rather than adopting a prescriptive perspective, this book provides a critical analysis of such methodologies. Specifically, the reader will benefit from the collation of the experiences of those who utilize participatory research methods in different countries and contexts, and from different academic and practitioner perspectives."--Publisher's description.

"Natural disasters have a profound impact upon the societies they affect but one important aspect that has yet to receive attention is how the relationship between state and society is affected in the aftermath of such events. How the state responds to such events can generate powerful forces within society for political, economic and social change."--Bloomsbury publishing