Navigating Risk: Understanding the Impact of the Conflict on Children and Young People in Northern Ireland
@article{Browne2014NavigatingRU, title={Navigating Risk: Understanding the Impact of the Conflict on Children and Young People in Northern Ireland}, author={Brendan Ciar{\'a}n Browne and Claire Dwyer}, journal={Studies in Conflict \& Terrorism}, year={2014}, volume={37}, pages={792 - 805} }
Twenty years on from the 1994 cease-fires, Northern Ireland is a markedly safer place for children and young people to grow up. However, for a significant number, growing up in post-conflict Northern Ireland has brought with it continued risks and high levels of marginalization. Many young people growing up on the sharp edge of the transition have continued to experience troubling levels of poverty, lower educational attainment, poor standards of childhood health, and sustained exposure to risk…
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