Research not Stereotypes

"neither War nor Peace"


Children in Organised
Armed Violence Final Report
about the study

Social Science
Research Council

Children in Armed Conflict


under construction

Gangs and Hip Hop
the power of identity


Prophets of Da City
Cape Town, South Africa

These pages look at the similarities and differences between armed groups as diverse as child
soldiers, gangs, drug cartels, para-militaries, fundamentalist religious militias, and death squads.
They are mainly based on research from a ten nation study, neither War nor Peace, and case
studies from the Social Science Research Council Working Group on Children in Armed Conflict.

Gangs and Terrorism

Gangs and Globalization by John Hagedorn (pdf)