John Wall, Rutgers-Camden

Chair: Cati Coe, Rutgers–Camden

Panelists:
Ishmael Beah (discussant)

David Rosen, Farleigh Dickinson
Title: “From Patriots to Victims: Paradigmatic Shifts in the Representation and Understanding of Child Soldiers”

Lacey Gale, Tufts University
Title: “Stories of men pikin: Child fostering during the Sierra Leone civil war”

Chair: Naomi Marmorstein, Rutgers–Camden

Paul Geltman, MD, MPH, Boston University
Title: The Lost Boys of Sudan: Health Outcomes and Use of Health Services by Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Resettled in the United States

Chair: Dan Cook, Rutgers–Camden

Gillian Mann, PhD candidate, London School of Political Science and Economics
Title: “Thinking too much” Among Undocumented Congolese Refugee Children in Dar es Salaam

Jason Hart, Senior Research Officer, Refugee Studies Centre, Department of International Development, University of Oxford
Title: Checkpoint Education: Learning, Everyday Experience and Political Violence

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Chair: John Wall, Rutgers–Camden

Joseph Rikhof, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa; Senior Counsel, Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Section, Government of Canada
Title: Child Soldiers: Should They Be Punished?

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Chair: Lynne Vallone, Rutgers–Camden

Margaret Higonnet, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Connecticut
Title: Child Eyewitnesses and Girl Soldiers in World War I

Keynote Speech:
Michael Wessells, Professor of Psychology at Columbia University and Randolf Macon College
Title: Girl Soldiers: A Cultural, Resilience Approach to Supporting Reintegration and Well-Being

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Chair: Patrick Cox, Rutgers–Camden

Gary Cross, Professor of Modern History, Penn State University
Title: War Toys and the Transformation of Children's Introduction to International Violence

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