Glimpsing the complexity of youth and political violence / Brian K. Barber -- An overview of the empirical literature on adolescents and political violence / Brian K. Barber and Julie Mikles Schluterman -- War, military violence, and aggressive development: child, family and social preconditions / Raija-Leena Punamäki -- Growing up in Israel : lessons on understanding the effects of political violence on children / Michelle Slone -- Youth soldiering : an integrated framework for understanding psychosocial impact / Michael Wessells and Kathleen Kostelny -- Young people's perceptions of political violence : the case of northern Ireland / Orla Muldoon, Clare Cassidy, and Nichola McCullough -- Measuring adolescent perceived support amidst war and disaster : the multi-sector social support inventory / Christopher M. Layne ... [et al.] -- The effects of wartime violence on young Bosnians' postwar behaviors : policy contours for the reconstruction period / Robert J. McCouch -- Positive and negative psychosocial functioning after political conflict : examining adolescents of the first Palestinian intifada / Brian K. Barber and Joseph A. Olsen -- Mozambican child soldier life outcome study / Neil Boothby, Jennifer Crawford, and Agostinho Mamade -- Tasting the world : life after wartime for Bosnian teens in Chicago / Stevan Weine ... [et al.] -- Making sense and no sense of war : issues of identity and meaning in adolescents' experience with political conflict / Brian K. Barber -- Conclusion: Moving forward with research on adolescents and political violence / Brian K. Barber.