Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 Glimpsing the Complexity of Youth and Political Violence -- Part I: General Treatments of Youth and Political Violence -- Chapter 2 An Overview of the Empirical Literature on Adolescents and Political Violence -- Chapter 3 War, Military Violence, and Aggressive Development: Child, Family, and Social Preconditions -- Chapter 4 Growing Up in Israel: Lessons on Understanding the Effects of Political Violence on Children -- Chapter 5 Youth Soldiering: An Integrated Framework for Understanding Psychosocial Impact -- Part II: Specifying the Effects of Political Violence -- Chapter 6 Young People's Perceptions of Political Violence: The Case of Northern Ireland -- Chapter 7 Measuring Adolescent Perceived Support Amidst War and Disaster: The Multi-Sector Social Support Inventory -- Chapter 8 The Effects of Wartime Violence on Young Bosnians' Postwar Behaviors: Policy Contours for the Reconstruction Period -- Part III: Expanding the Scope of Inquiry into Youth and Political Violence -- Chapter 9 Positive and Negative Psychosocial Functioning after Political Conflict: Examining Adolescents of the First Palestinian Intifada -- Chapter 10 Mozambican Child Soldier Life Outcome Study -- Chapter 11 Tasting the World: Life after Wartime for Bosnian Teens in Chicago -- Chapter 12 Making Sense and No Sense of War: Issues of Identity and Meaning in Adolescents' Experience with Political Conflict -- Part IV: Conclusion -- Chapter 13 Moving Forward with Research on Adolescents and Political Violence -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.