5th International Children of War Conference
University of Winchester, 4-6 September
PROGRAMME
All sessions held in West Downs room 211
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
9:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 12:00
Registration and Coffee/Tea
Opening Session
Words of welcome
Christine Ryan (conference organiser, University of Winchester)
William Sheward (University of Winchester)
Pru Marriott (Head of Department, University of Winchester)
Guest speaker
Rob Williams (CEO, War Child)
An Unwanted Truth: putting a spot light on sexual violence against children in
conflict
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30 Session 1
Samuel Stein, Uttom Chowdhury, Silvia Borelli (University of Bedfordshire, UK)
Impact of violence on children
Mark Douglas (Colombia Theological Seminary, USA)
Reshaping theologies of childhood in light of war
Celia Nagawa (Justice for Children, Uganda)
Justice for former child soldiers in postwar northern Uganda
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee/Tea Break
16:00 - 18:00
Session 2
Maria Sjoberg (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Gender perspective of the role of children in conflict
Bonnie Ayodele (Ekiti State University, Nigeria)
Caught in the mix: the life of the children of Eastern Congo in the unending
theatre of violence
Emma Lautman (University of Nottingham)
The Evacuation of British Children during WWII: a gendered perspective
Sarah Stokes (Roehampton University, UK)
Fixed Stars and Variable Lines: interpreting narrative, culture and
colonisation in The Rabbits
19:00
Dinner
Thursday, 5th September 2013
9:30 - 10:00
Coffee/Tea
10:00 - 12:00
Session 1
Ann Nehlin (Stockholm University, Sweden)
The use of children in Swedish wartime politics: the children from Finland
Helen Leadbitter (University of Winchester, UK)
Young carers in refugee families
Bimal Dahal (Payap University, Thailand)
War children in Nepal
Olutayo Adesina (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
Child cadets and intrepid soldiers in pre-colonial Yoruba and Aja cultures
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30
Session 2
Mai Maddisson (Germany)
The relevance of narrative of war childhood memories in the study of war
trauma
Bosede Awodola and Susan Audu-Bako (Institute for Peace and Conflict
Resolution, Nigeria)
The reintegration of war affected children: the underlying challenges
Donna Halliday (Liverpool Hope University, UK)
Disturbing the peace? The post conflict generation and the politics of
memory in Northern Ireland
Jawad Nazir (Foundation University, Pakistan)
Developing educational institutions to assist in the rehabilitation of children
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee/Tea
16:00 - 18:00
Session 3
Catherine Earl (Monash University, Australia)
Vietnam's post-war generation: disability, social welfare and status identity
in Ho Chi Minh City
Hirse Bennies (Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Nigeria)
Identifying the gaps in the reintegration of war affected children
Angela Raven-Roberts (Oxford University, UK)
Militarized youth and militarized livelihoods: a paradox of practices.
International agency responses to youth in armed conflict
19:00
Dinner
Friday, 6th September 2013
9:30 - 10:00
Coffee/Tea
10:00 - 12:00
Session 1
Baard Borge (Harstad University College, Norway)
School experiences of collaborators' children 1940-1960
Christine Ryan (University of Winchester, UK)
The Tunisian Revolution as experienced by street children
Aduloju Ayodeji Anthony (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
Conflict and other factors challenging the survival of the African child in the
21st century
Arinze Ngwube (Ekiti State University, Nigeria)
The effect of war on children: a case study of Goma in the DRC
12:00 - 12:30
Closing Session