PUBLICATIONS

Refereed article in a scientific journal

PETERS, K. (forthcoming 2012) ‘Youth, Wars and Violence in West Africa’. In History Compass Vol. 10.

PETERS, K. 2011. “The Crisis of Youth in Post-war Sierra Leone. Problem solved?” in Africa Today, Special Issue: Everyday lives in Post-war Sierra Leone. eds. Shepler, S. & Ibrahim, I. Vol 58 (2).  Pp. 128-153

KUNKELER, J. & PETERS, K. (2011) “The Boys are coming to Town. Youth, armed conflict and urban violence in developing countries” for International Journal of Conflict and Violence Special Issue: youth violence – international and historical perspectives Vol. 5(2) pp. 277-291

PETERS, K.. & RICHARDS, P. 2011. “Rebellion and agrarian tensions in Sierra Leone”, Journal of Agrarian Change. Vol. 11, No 3. pp.377-395

BURGE, M & PETERS, K. 2011. “Riding the Wheels of Change. Young bikeriders and the crisis of youth in Sierra Leone”. in Revista de Relaciones Internacionales.. Special Issue: Construcción de paz postbélica y construcción de estado en las Relaciones Internacionales, eds Ferrao, R. & Mateos, O No. 16 (2011). pp. 179-198. .

PETERS, K. 2007. “Reintegration support for young ex-combatants:  a right or a privilege?” International Migration. Vol. 45 Issue 5 pp. 35-59.

PETERS, K. 2007. “From Weapons to Wheels: Young Sierra Leonean ex-combatants become motorbike taxi-riders.” Journal of Peace, Conflict and Development No 10, March 2007, pp. 1 - 23

PETERS, K. 2000. “Policy making on children in conflict, lessons from Sierra Leone and Liberia” Cultural Survival Quarterly v.24 (2) pp. 56-58

PETERS, K. & RICHARDS, P. 1998. “Why we fight: voices of under-age youth combatants in Sierra Leone.” Africa, v. 68(2) pp. 183-210

PETERS, K.  & RICHARDS, P.  1998. “When they say soldiers are rebels, it’s a lie”:

young fighters talk about war and peace in Sierra Leone. Cahier d’Etudes Africaine 150-152, pp. 581-617

Scientific book

PETERS, K. 2011. War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone. International African Institute Library Series, Cambridge University Press. pp. 274

DUPUY, K & PETERS, K. 2009. War and Children Praeger Security International, Greenwood Publishing Group, US. pp. 204

PETERS, K. 2006. Footpaths to Reintegration. Armed Conflict, Youth and the Rural Crisis in Sierra Leone. Wageningen University Thesis. ISBN 90-8504-401-4, pp. 188

PETERS, K. 2004. Re-examining Voluntarism: Youth Combatants in Sierra Leone. ISS monograph series, no 100, April 2004, South Africa. pp. 35

Peer reviewed book chapter

PETERS, K. (forthcoming 2012) Demobilisation and reintegration of former Combatants: experiences from Liberia and Sierra Leone. In Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa: New challenges and New Perspectives. Eds. Grasa, R., Fabregas, A. & O. Mateos. International Catalan Institute for Peace.

PETERS, K. 2011. Group Cohesion and Coercive Recruitment: child soldiers in Sierra Leone. In Child Soldiers: From Recruitment to Reintegration. eds. Özerdem, A. & Podder, S. Palgrave MacMillan. pp. 76-90.

PETERS, K. 2010. Local communities, militias and rebel movements; the case of the RUF in Sierra Leone. In Militias, Rebels and Islamist Militants –Human Insecurity and State Crises in Africa. eds. Okumu, W. & Ikelegbe, A. Institute for Security Studies, South Africa. pp. 389-415.

PETERS, K. 2010. Generating rebels and soldiers. On the socio-economic crisis of rural youth in Sierra Leone before the war. In The Powerful Presence of the Past: Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast. eds. Knörr, J & Filho, T. Brill publishers. pp. 323-355

BURGE, M. & PETERS, K. 2010. Social capital and collective demobilisation packages for ex-combatants: The case of Sierra Leone’s bike riders. In Youth in violent life circumstances. Ways out of the ‘vicious circles of violence. eds. Kurtenbach, S., Blumor, R. & Huhn, S.  The Development and Peace Foundation, Nomos. pp. 163-176

PETERS, K. 2005. Child Soldiers: prevention, demobilisation and reintegration. InChildren in Armed Conflicts. Recommendations to The Netherlands and the EU. eds. Heselmans, Y., van Beurden J. & Hartog, K. Plan Nederland, pp. 26-29.

PETERS, K. 2005. Reintegrating young ex-combatants in Sierra Leone: Accommodation indigenous and wartime value systems. In Vanguard or Vandals. Youth, Politics and Conflict in Africa. eds. Abbink, A. & van Kessel, I. Brill Leiden - Boston 2005, pp. 267-296.

PETERS, K. 2001. Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone: Victims or Perpetrators? Opportunities for Reintegration. in Africa Expert Meeting. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Africa Study Centre, The Hague 2000, pp. 69-74

PETERS, K. & RICHARDS, P. 1998. “Fighting with Open Eyes”: Youth Combatants Talking about War in Sierra Leone. In Rethinking the Trauma of War. Edited by Patrick J. Bracken and Celia Petty. (London: Free Association Books Ltd) pp. 76-111

Research report

HUISMAN, W. & PETERS, K. 2011. “International Development and the Chemical Sector” NWO/WOTRO Discussion Paper, March 2011. (Unpublished report for Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)

PETERS, K. 2011. Expert report on the Bundu society in Sierra Leone. Prepared for the Scottish Legal Aid Board (unpublished report)

PETERS, K. 2007. Expert report on the Poro society in Sierra Leone. Prepared for the Scottish Legal Aid Board (unpublished report)

PETERS, K. 2007. Expert Report on the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone. Prepared for the Sesay Defence Team, Special Court for Sierra Leone. (unpublished report)

STAVROU, A., BURTON, P., JOHNSON, S., PETERS, K. & VINCENT, J. 2003. NCDDR. Ex-combatants 2003 Tracer Study, Multi-Donor Trust Fund. Sierra Leone (unpublished report)

PETERS, K. with LAWS, S. 2003. When children affected by war go home: lessons learnt from Liberia. Save the Children, London.

PETERS, K., RICHARDS, P. & VLASSENROOT, K. 2003. What happens to youth after conflict?A preliminary scan of the Africa-related literature and assessment of debates. For the Netherlands Development Assistance Research Council (RAWOO Working Paper).

Book review & review articles aimed at a scientific audience

PETERS, K. (forthcoming) Book review of Re-Member. Rehabilitation, Reintegration and Reconciliation of War-Affected Children. Eds. Derluyn, I., Mels, C., Parmentier, S. & Vandenhole, W. International Criminal Justice Review

PETERS, K. (forthcoming) Book review of The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia by Danny Hoffman Journal of Anthropological Research

PETERS, K. (forthcoming) Book review of When the State Fails, ed. Zack-Williams, T. Journal of Modern African Studies

PETERS, K. 2011. Book review of States of Violence. Politics, Youth, and Memory in Contemporary Africa. eds. Bay, E.G. & Donham, D.L. The Journal of Modern African Studies Vol. 49 Issue 1.

PETERS, K. 2010. Book review of Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa by Lund, C. Africa. Vol. 80 No 3

PETERS, K. 2010. Book review of Insecure Spaces. Peacekeeping, power and performance in Haiti, Kosovo and Liberia by Higate, P. & Henry, M. African Security Review, Vol. 13 Issue 3

PETERS, K. 2009. Book review of the Intestines of the State: youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon Grassfields by Argenti, N. The Journal of Modern African Studies. Vol. 47 Issue 4.

PETERS, K. 2009. Book review of Navigating Youth, Generating Adulthood eds. Christiansen, C., Utas, M. and Vigh, H. African Affairs. Vol. 108 No 430

PETERS, K. 2007. Book review of Navigating terrains of war. Youth and Soldiering in Guinea-Bissau by Vigh, H.  the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Vol. 13, Issue 3 pp. 758-759

PETERS, K. & RICHARDS, P. 2007. “Understanding Post-Cold War Armed Conflicts in Africa.” Africa  vol. 77(3) 2007

Contribution to proceedings

PETERS, K. (forthcoming) Sierra Leone. In Africa Contemporary Record Vol. 29, 2002-2003. 

PETERS, K. 2012. Country chapter: Sierra Leone. Africa Yearbook. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2011. eds. Mehler, A., Melber, H. & van Walraven, K. Brill Leiden

PETERS, K. 2011. Country chapter: Sierra Leone. Africa Yearbook. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2010. eds. Mehler, A., Melber, H. & van Walraven, K. Brill Leiden

PETERS, K. 2010. Country chapter: Sierra Leone. Africa Yearbook. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2009. eds. Mehler, A., Melber, H. & van Walraven, K. Brill Leiden

PETERS, K. 2009. Country chapter: Sierra Leone. Africa Yearbook. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2008. eds. Mehler, A., Melber, H. & van Walraven, K. Brill Leiden

PETERS, K. 2008. Country chapter: Sierra Leone. Africa Yearbook. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2007. eds. Mehler, A., Melber, H. & van Walraven, K. Brill Leiden

PETERS, K. 2007. Country chapter: Sierra Leone. Africa Yearbook. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2006. eds. Mehler, A., Melber, H. & van Walraven, K. Brill Leiden

PETERS, K. 2006. Country chapter: Sierra Leone. Africa Yearbook.Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2005. eds. Mehler, A., Melber, H. & van Walraven, K. Brill Leiden, pp. 161-168.

PETERS, K. 2005. Country chapter: Sierra Leone. Africa Yearbook. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2004. eds. Mehler, A., Melber, H. & van Walraven, K. Brill Leiden, pp. 159-166.

CONSULTANCIES

June ’11                    Scottish Legal Aid Board

Hired to write an expert report on the Bundu society in Sierra Leone.

May ’11                      Amnesty International

Acted as Key Informant for validating baseline measurement for Freedom of Fear Alliance’s Human security and human rights for citizens in fragile states programme

May ’07                      Scottish Legal Aid Board

Hired to write an expert report on the Poro society in Sierra Leone.

April ’07                     Institute for Security Studies, South Africa

Prepared a document for the revision and updating of the institute’s online country profile of Sierra Leone

Nov. ’06 – Jan. ’07   Special Court for Sierra Leone

Hired as a consultant to write an expert witness report on the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone

April ’04 – May ‘04   PLAN Netherlands

Guide and translator to the Rap4Rights and Spunk young journalists mission to Sierra Leone and author of a teacher’s manual on child soldiers, for secondary schools in the Netherlands.

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Nov. ’03 - Dec. ‘03   NCDDR/World Bank

Analysed the quantitative data on the reintegration process of ex-combatants in Sierra Leone and wrote the social reintegration chapter of the Tracer Study and Follow-up Assessment.

Apr. ’02 - May ’02     The Netherlands Development Assistance Research Council

                                               Hired as a consultant to execute a preliminary scan of the Africa-related literature on conflict and assessment of debates to identify the possibilities for an international research programme on youth and conflict.

Mar. ’02                      Royal Institute of the Tropics, the Netherlands

Contracted to check and correct a bank of 300 questions and reader on Nigeria for interpreters and translators working for the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Immigration and Naturalisation Department.

Aug. ’01 - Oct. ’01    Royal Institute of the Tropics, the Netherlands

Hired as a consultant to develop a bank of 300 questions and reader on Sierra Leone and Liberia for interpreters and translators working for the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Immigration and Naturalisation Department.

Sept. ‘00 - Oct. ’00    Save the Children UK/ECHO

Contracted to execute the Sierra Leone case study for the research project on child soldiers and children associated with the fighting forces; guidelines for best practice.

Jan. ‘99 - Jun.’99     Wageningen University, the Netherlands

Organised the courses “Introduction Development Issues (BA level)” and “Conflict and Development (MSc level).

INVITED PRESENTATIONS (from 2006 onwards)

-          2006 Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany.

-          2006 Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway.

-          2007 University of Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom

-          2008 Dutch association for Criminology, the Netherlands

-          2008 International Peace Research Institute, Norway

-          2009 VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

-          2009 Institute for Security Studies, South Africa

-          2009 German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Germany

-          2009 NWO-Wotro Science for Global Development, Ethiopia

-          2009 University of York, United Kingdom

-          2010 Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain

-          2010 University of Sussex, United Kingdom

-          2010 University College London, United Kingdom

-          2010 Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark

-          2010 International Catalan Institute for Peace, Spain

-          2011 University of Vienna, Austria

-          2012 Sabbatical/Visiting Fellow Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Centre