Small Soldiers? Children in colonial insurgencies and counterinsurgency tactics, 1945-60
Channel: War Studies KCL
Date: 13/12/2021

Chair: Dr Mark Condos, Lecturer, War Studies Department

Speaker: Dr Stacey Hynd, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter

Dr Hynd is Co-Director of the Centre for Imperial and Global History and a member of the Centre for War, State and Society. Her primary research interests are in conflict and humanitarianism in Africa and she is working on a history of child soldiering that traces historical patterns in the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict across Africa, and also analyzes the evolution of humanitarian campaigning and transnational advocacy against children's involvement in conflict in 1970s to the present. She is interested more widely in African gender histories, histories of youth and childhood, violence and warfare in Africa, anti-landmine campaigning, and in global histories of humanitarianism and human rights. Other research interests are in the history of law, violence and punishment in Africa, particularly on the death penalty in British colonial Africa.Dr Hynd teaches on African twentieth century political and socio-cultural histories, civil wars, and child solidering.