Swansea University - peters_k

Dr Krijn Peters

Specialist Subjects: Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of ex-combatants, child soldiers, transitional justice and international crimes, youth marginalisation and exclusion, rural and agrarian development, post-war reconstruction, multi-nationals and corporate social responsibility. Region of expertise: West Africa

In progress
KUNKELER, J. & PETERS, K. (submitted) “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) 2011
BROCKLEHURST, H. & PETERS, K. (under revision) “Constructing and deconstructing child soldiers narratives”. for Journal of Human Rights Practice. 
PETERS, K. & T. Bouwknegt (in preparation) ‘Too high a price for justice? The Special Court for Sierra Leone in the wider context of post-war rehabilitation and reconstruction’
PETERS, K. (submitted) People’s Courts & Jungle Justice: How the RUF’s popular justice failed to address structural social injustices for the underclass of youth in Sierra Leone. In Access to Justice and Security. Non-State Actors and the Local Dynamics of Ordering. Eds. Albrecht, P. & Kyed, H.M. DIIS, Copenhagen
Forthcoming 
PETERS, K. (forthcoming 2011) 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. (forthcoming 2011) Group Cohesion and Coercive Recruitment: child soldiers in Sierra Leone. for Child Soldiers: From Recruitment to Reintegration. eds. Özerdem, A. & Podder, S. Palgrave MacMillan.
PETERS, K. (forthcoming 2011) Sierra Leone. In Africa Contemporary Record Vol. 29, 2002-2003.  
PETERS, K. (forthcoming 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. (forthcoming) The Crisis of Youth in Post-war Sierra Leone. Problem solved? for Africa Today, Special Issue: Everyday lives in Post-war Sierra Leone. eds. Shepler, S. & Ibrahim, I.   
Published
PETERS, K.. & RICHARDS, P. 2011. “Rebellion and agrarian tensions in Sierra Leone”, Journal of Agrarian Change. Vol. 11, No 3. 
PETERS, K. 2011. War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone. International African Institute Library Series, Cambridge University Press.
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. 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.
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. 2011, No. 16. Special Issue: Construcción de paz postbélica y construcción de estado en las Relaciones Internacionales.
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.
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. 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.
PETERS, K. 2010. Book review of Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa by Lund, C. Africa. Vol. 80 No 3
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. 
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 
DUPUY, K & PETERS, K. 2009. War and Children Praeger Security International, Greenwood Publishing Group, US.
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. 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. 2009. Book review of Navigating Youth, Generating Adulthood eds. Christiansen, C., Utas, M. and Vigh, H. African Affairs. Vol. 108 No 430
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. “Reintegration support for young ex-combatants:  a right or a privilege?” International Migration. Vol. 45 Issue 5
PETERS, K. 2007. Expert report on the Poro society in Sierra Leone. Prepared for the Scottish Legal Aid Board (unpublished report)
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. 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. 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. 2007. Expert Report on the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone. Prepared for the Sesay Defence Team, Special Court for Sierra Leone. (unpublished report) 
PETERS, K. & RICHARDS, P. 2007. “Understanding Post-Cold War Armed Conflicts in Africa.” Africa  vol. 77(3) 2007
PETERS, K. 2006. Footpaths to Reintegration. Armed Conflict, Youth and the Rural Crisis in Sierra Leone. Wageningen University Thesis. ISBN 90-8504-401-4
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. Child Soldiers: prevention, demobilisation and reintegration. In Children 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. 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.
PETERS, K. 2004. Re-examining Voluntarism: Youth Combatants in Sierra Leone. ISS monograph series, no 100, April 2004, South Africa. 
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).
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. 2000. “The voice of the child soldier” SMart, issue 3 London. p. 16
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. “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
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
In progress
  • KUNKELER, J. & PETERS, K. (submitted) “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) 2011
  • BROCKLEHURST, H. & PETERS, K. (under revision) “Constructing and deconstructing child soldiers narratives”. for Journal of Human Rights Practice. 
  • PETERS, K. & T. Bouwknegt (in preparation) ‘Too high a price for justice? The Special Court for Sierra Leone in the wider context of post-war rehabilitation and reconstruction’
  • PETERS, K. (submitted) People’s Courts & Jungle Justice: How the RUF’s popular justice failed to address structural social injustices for the underclass of youth in Sierra Leone. In Access to Justice and Security. Non-State Actors and the Local Dynamics of Ordering. Eds. Albrecht, P. & Kyed, H.M. DIIS, Copenhagen
Forthcoming 
  • PETERS, K. (forthcoming 2011) 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. (forthcoming 2011) Group Cohesion and Coercive Recruitment: child soldiers in Sierra Leone. for Child Soldiers: From Recruitment to Reintegration. eds. Özerdem, A. & Podder, S. Palgrave MacMillan.
  • PETERS, K. (forthcoming 2011) Sierra Leone. In Africa Contemporary Record Vol. 29, 2002-2003.  
  • PETERS, K. (forthcoming 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. (forthcoming) The Crisis of Youth in Post-war Sierra Leone. Problem solved? for Africa Today, Special Issue: Everyday lives in Post-war Sierra Leone. eds. Shepler, S. & Ibrahim, I.   
Published
  • PETERS, K.. & RICHARDS, P. 2011. “Rebellion and agrarian tensions in Sierra Leone”, Journal of Agrarian Change. Vol. 11, No 3. 
  • PETERS, K. 2011. War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone. International African Institute Library Series, Cambridge University Press.
  • 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. 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.
  • 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. 2011, No. 16. Special Issue: Construcción de paz postbélica y construcción de estado en las Relaciones Internacionales.
  • 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.
  • 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. 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.
  • PETERS, K. 2010. Book review of Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa by Lund, C. Africa. Vol. 80 No 3
  • 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. 
  • 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 
  • DUPUY, K & PETERS, K. 2009. War and Children Praeger Security International, Greenwood Publishing Group, US.
  • 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. 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. 2009. Book review of Navigating Youth, Generating Adulthood eds. Christiansen, C., Utas, M. and Vigh, H. African Affairs. Vol. 108 No 430
  • 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. “Reintegration support for young ex-combatants:  a right or a privilege?” International Migration. Vol. 45 Issue 5
  • PETERS, K. 2007. Expert report on the Poro society in Sierra Leone. Prepared for the Scottish Legal Aid Board (unpublished report)
  • 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. 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. 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. 2007. Expert Report on the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone. Prepared for the Sesay Defence Team, Special Court for Sierra Leone. (unpublished report) 
  • PETERS, K. & RICHARDS, P. 2007. “Understanding Post-Cold War Armed Conflicts in Africa.” Africa  vol. 77(3) 2007
  • PETERS, K. 2006. Footpaths to Reintegration. Armed Conflict, Youth and the Rural Crisis in Sierra Leone. Wageningen University Thesis. ISBN 90-8504-401-
  • 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. Child Soldiers: prevention, demobilisation and reintegration. In Children 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. 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.
  • PETERS, K. 2004. Re-examining Voluntarism: Youth Combatants in Sierra Leone. ISS monograph series, no 100, April 2004, South Africa. 
  • 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).
  • 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. 2000. “The voice of the child soldier” SMart, issue 3 London. p. 16
  • 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. “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
  • 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
General Information

PhD Technology and Agrarian Development (Wageningen 2006), MSc Rural Development Sociology (Wageningen 1998) BSc Rural Development Studies (Wageningen 1994)

Lecturer and Head of Teaching, Centre for Development Studies
Swansea
TEL: +44 (0) 1792 295183
FAX: +44 (0) 1792 295682
E-MAIL: k.peters@swansea.ac.uk

Courses Taught

- Aftermaths of War
- The State of Africa
- Violence, Conflict and Development
- Rights-based Approaches to Development
- Communication and Development
- War, Identityand Society

Aftermaths of War

The State of Africa

Violence, Conflict and Development

Rights-based Approaches to Development

Communication and Development

War, Identity and Society