Welcome to Children and Families Displaced by War and Violence

Research

Articles, Books, and Websites

• Adverse Childhood Experiences among Children of Parents who Are Refugees Affected by Trauma in Denmark: A Register-Based Cohort Study
  [Bager, L., Laursen, T.M., Palic, S., Nordin, L., Thøgersen, M.H. (2022). Adverse childhood experiences among children of parents who are refugees affected by trauma in Denmark: a register-based cohort study. The Lancet, 7(10), E825-E833. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00194-3] 

• Children and War: Risk, Resilience, and Recovery
  [Werner, E. (2012). Children and war: Risk, resilience, and recovery. Development and Psychopathology, 24(2), 553-558. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579412000156] 

• The Effects of Armed Conflict on Children
  [Kadir, A., Shenoda, S., Goldhagen, J., Pitterman, S., Suchdev, P.S., Chan, K.J., Howard, C.R., McGann, P., St Clair, N.E., Yun, K., Arnold, L.D. (2018). The Effects of Armed Conflict on Children, Pediatrics, 142(6), e20182586. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2018-2586] 

• Handbook of Resilience in Children of War edited by Chandi Fernando and Michel Ferrari

• Impact of War on Children and Imperative to End War
  [Santa Barbara J. (2006). Impact of war on children and imperative to end war, Croat Med J., 47(6), 891-894.]

• Refugee Children: The Challenges They Face and the Efforts to Overcome Them (2020) by Meagan Anderson

• Refugee Trauma by The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (nctsn.org)

• Trauma Functioning and Well-Being in Children Who Receive Mental Health Aid after Natural Disaster or War
  [Simonds, E., Gobenciong, K.A.P., Eilson, J.E., Jiroutek, M.R., Nugent, N.R., van Tilburg, M.A.L. (2022). Trauma Functioning and Well-Being in Children Who Receive Mental Health Aid after Natural Disaster or War, Children, 9(7), 951. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9070951]

• War and Children 
  [Liu, M. (2017) War and Children, The American Journal of Psychiatry Residents’ Journal, 12(7), 3-5. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp-rj.2017.120702]

Reports

• Save the Children Reports and Articles

  • The Number of Children Living in Deadliest War Zones Rises Nearly 20% to Highest in Over a Decade (2021)

  • Walking into the Eye of the Storm: How the Climate Crisis is Driving Child Migration and Displacement (2021)

  • Weapon of War: Sexual Violence Against Children in Conflict (2021)

  • Stop the War on Children: Killed and Maimed: A Generation of Violations Against Children (2020)

  • Stop the War on Children: Gender Matters (2020)

  • Stop the War on Children: Protecting Children in 21st Century Conflict (2019)

  • The War on Children: Time to End Grave Violations Against Children in Conflict (2018) 

  • What is a Refugee?

• Resilience of Refugee Children after War (2010) by American Psychological Association

Webinars and Podcasts

• How Becoming A Refugee Changes You by Consider This from NPR

• We Left One War and Came to Another: The Double Edge Sword of Resettlement in Urban Communities for Refugee Youth webinar by The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (nctsn.org)