Children and Peace: From Research to Action

Foreword.- Introduction.- Part I Addressing the Well-Being of Refugee and Migrant Children.- 1. A Multi-Method Assessment of Risk and Protective Factors in Family Violence: Comparing Italian and migrant families.- 2. Engaging Men to Support the Resilience of Syrian Refugee Children & Youth in Lebanon.- 3. Promoting civic engagement and social inclusion interventions for minors involved with crimes.- 4. Indirect Contact Interventions to Promote Peace in Multicultural Societies.- 5. Promoting prosocial behaviour toward refugees: Exploring the empathy-attitude-action model in middle childhood.- 6. Civic Participation and Other Interventions that Promote Children's Tolerance of Migrants.- 7. Does Participating in Volunteer Organizations Promote Migrant Integration? A Study with Young First and Second Generation Immigrants.- 8. About power and empowerment for intergroup harmony.- Part II Children Growing Up in Violent Geopolitical Contexts.- 9. Beyond Risk Factors: Structural Drivers of Violence Affecting Children.- 10. Growing up in violent contexts: Differential effects of community, family and school violence on child adjustment.- 11. When do Intergenerational Narratives of Ingroup Responsibility for Past Violence Result in Peace and Violence?.- 12. Youth identity, peace and conflict: Insights from conflict and diverse settings.- 13. Children's Conceptualizations of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Peacebuilding in the Context of Armed Conflict.- Part III Promoting Peace and Well-Being in Children.- 14. Learning for Peace: Lessons Learned from  UNICEF's Peacebuilding, Education and Advocacy in Conflict-Affected Contexts Programme.- 15. Educating towards a culture of peace through an innovative teaching method and experiences between secondary school and university.- 16. The Role of Cognitive Complexity in Promoting a Positive Representation of Diversity in Children.- 17. Political Orientation and Engagement from Adolescence to Adulthood: Evidence of (Dis)Continuity from a Three-Decade Longitudinal Study in the German Peace Movement.- 18. Enabling Full Participation: A Community-Led Approach to Child Protection.- 19. From research to action and the spaces in-between: experiences from peacebuilding programs for young people in Cambodia and Uganda.- 20. Working for the Well-Being of Children: The Value and Efficacy of Adopting a Cooperative, Inter-Agency Approach.- Part IV Children and Survival of the Species.- 21. Climate change and children: An issue of intergenerational justice.- Conclusion.