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Dr. Myriam Denov is a Full Professor and holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Youth, Gender and Armed Conflict at 麻豆AV.听 Her research and teaching interests lie in the areas of children and youth in adversity, and international child protection, with an emphasis on war and political violence, children in armed conflict, and gender-based violence. A specialist in participatory research, she has worked with war-affected children in Asia, Africa, and the Americas and has conducted research on the reintegration experiences of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone, Colombia, northern Uganda, and war-affected youth living in Canada.听 Denov has presented expert evidence in court on child soldiers, and has advised government and nongovernmental organizations on children in armed conflict, and girls in armed groups.听 She currently leads a multi-institutional and multidisciplinary research team on children and global adversity.听 Denov has authored five books including Child Soldiers: Sierra Leone鈥檚 Revolutionary United Front (Cambridge University Press) and Children鈥檚 Rights and International Development: Lessons and Challenges from the Field (Palgrave Macmillan).听听 In 2014, she was awarded a Trudeau Fellowship to address the realities of children born of wartime sexual violence in northern Uganda.听 Denov holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Commonwealth Scholar.

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Selected Books and Articles

Denov, M. and Akesson, B. (eds.) (2016) Children Affected by Armed Conflict: Theory, Method, Practice.听 New York: Columbia University Press.

Denov, M. (2015) Children born of wartime rape: The intergenerational complexities of sexual violence and abuse.听 Ethics, Medicine and Public Health, 11: 61-68.

Denov, M., and Marchand, I. (2014). 鈥淥ne Cannot Take Away the Stain鈥�: Rejection and Stigma Among Former Child Soldiers in Colombia.听 Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 20, 3: 227鈥�240.

Denov, M. & Ricard-Guay, A.听 (2013) 鈥淕irl Soldiers: Towards a Gendered Understanding of Wartime Recruitment, Participation and Demobilization鈥�.听 Gender and Development, 21, 3: 473-488.

Denov, M.听 (2010) Child Soldiers: Sierra Leone鈥檚 Revolutionary United Front.听 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Denov, M., & Buccitelli, A.听 (2013) 鈥淣avigating Crisis and Chronicity in the Everyday: Former Child Soldiers in Urban Sierra Leone鈥�.听 Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, 2, 3: 1-18.

Denov, M., Doucet, D., & Kamara, A. (2012) 鈥淓ngaging War-Affected Youth Through Photography: Photovoice with Former Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone鈥�.听 Intervention: The International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work and Counselling in Areas of Armed Conflict, 10, 2: 117-133.

Doucet, D., & Denov, M. (2012) 鈥淭he Power of Sweet Words: Local Forms of Intervention with War-Affected Women in Rural Post-Conflict Sierra Leone鈥�.听 International Social Work, 55: 612-628.

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