Narrating hope and resistance: A critical analysis of sources of agency among Palestinian children living under military violence.
Guido VeroneseFederica CavazzoniSilvia AntenucciPublished in: Child: care, health and development (2018)
The results of this preliminary exploration of children's agency suggest that the children's living environment plays a key role in shaping their suffering and reactions to war and ongoing violence. Furthermore, the social nature of the children affected by war-related suffering forces practitioners and policymakers to question the effectiveness of intervention programs that are predominantly focused on symptoms.