A socioecological approach to children’s experiences of violence: Evidence from Young Lives

Kirrily Pells, Virginia Morrow, M. Catherine Maternowska & Alina Potts - Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies: An International Interdisciplinary Journal for Research, Policy and Care

This paper highlights findings from a a 15-year longitudinal cohort study of children growing up in poverty in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam.

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The Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children: An overview

M. Catherine Maternowska & Deborah Fry - Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies: An International Interdisciplinary Journal for Research, Policy and Care

This paper describes the underpinning principles and frameworks of the Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children conducted by national research teams comprising government, practitioners and academic researchers in Italy, Peru, Viet Nam and Zimbabwe.

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Applying the child-centred and integrated framework for violence prevention: A case study on physical violence in Viet Nam

Le Hong Loan, Vu Thi Le Thanh and M. Catherine Maternowsk - Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies: An International Interdisciplinary Journal for Research, Policy and Care

This article presents the findings of a study that set out to understand what drives violence in Viet Nam as part of the Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children.

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The Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children in Peru: The process and its outcomes

Patricia Ames, Jeanine Anderson, Amanda Martin, Rosario Rodriguez & Alina Potts - Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies: An International Interdisciplinary Journal for Research, Policy and Care

This article presents the Peru results as part of the Multi Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children.

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The transformative process of the Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children in Italy

Erika Bernacchi & Marco Zelano - Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies: An International Interdisciplinary Journal for Research, Policy and Care

This article reflects on the process of the Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children in Italy.

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The Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children in Zimbabwe: Using a mixed methods, multi-stakeholder approach to discover what drives violence

Noriko Izumi and Line Baago Rasmussen - UNICEF - Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies: An International Interdisciplinary Journal for Research, Policy and Care

This article presents an overview of the Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children (VAC) process – including some of the challenges faced and how these were addressed – and a snapshot of the specific findings which helped stakeholders further their understanding about the drivers of VAC in Zimbabwe and what can be done to address them.

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The effect of the colonialist terms “orphan” and “adoption” on the citizenship status of indigenous Fijian adoptees within their own community

Erica Newman - AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

This article investigates the colonialist definitions of the terms “orphan” and “adoption”, contrasting them with how the traditional practice of child circulation in Fiji cared for orphaned children.