@inbook {5665,
	title = {Mental health and development among children living in violent conditions: Underlying processes for promoting peace},
	booktitle = {Pathways to peace: The transformative power of children and families},
	volume = {15},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {213 - 232},
	publisher = {The MIT Press},
	organization = {The MIT Press},
	chapter = {12},
	abstract = {Peacebuilding is believed to be especially challenging among children who themselves fall victims to collective and interpersonal violence. An intriguing question is whether a focus on trauma, and on healing its negative impacts, is necessary for peacebuilding and societally harmonious human development. Some argue that suffering, pain, and injustice must be recognized and healed if peaceful and harmonious development is to be enabled; others emphasize the importance of positive outcomes despite violence. This chapter analyzes how forms of violence (military and domestic) influence the social, emotional, and cognitive development of children. Particular attention is given to the risks and negative impacts as well as the positive protective processes that promote meaningfulness. It also discusses how psychosocial interventions can enhance positive and peace-enhancing development in community and family domains. The core issue is to create political, societal, and cultural preconditions that will facilitate children{\textquoteright}s mental growth and generative resilience despite violence.},
	keywords = {childhood development, early childhood interventions, peacebuilding, Trauma, Violence},
	doi = {10.7551/mitpress/9780262027984.003.0012},
	url = {https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/pathways-peace},
	author = {Punam{\"a}ki, Raija-Leena},
	editor = {Leckman, James F. and Panter-Brick, Catherine and Salah, Rima}
}
