2000 Wars worldwide have changed dramatically over the last several decades. Battlefields often run through city centers and the vast majority of casualties now are civilians.
Children find themselves at the epicenter of political violence today.
They are killed in greater numbers than soldiers, they constitute half of all refugee populations, and hundreds of thousands serve as child soldiers. They help rebuild war-devastated societies in ways we are just beginning to explore in academia. She studies the anthropology and ethnography of violence and socio-political conflict.