Long-Term Impact of Political Conflict on Youth: Center Receives $1 million Grant to Study Long-Term Impact of Political Violence on Youth

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Center Receives $1 million Grant to Study Long-Term Impact of Political Violence on Youth

Brian Barber and the research team at the Center for the Study of Youth and Political Conflict received $1 million grant in November 2009 from the Jacobs Foundation to support a multi-year study of a cohort of Palestinian youth: The Impact of Political Conflict on Youth: Assessing Long-Term Well-Being via an Event History - Resource Model (Barber, PI; McNeely, co-investigator; Spellings, doctoral student). This pioneering study assesses the long-term functioning of youths who endured and participated in substantial political conflict.

The purpose of this blog is to document the evolution of the project and serve as a main dissemination tool for the project's findings.

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About the Project

The main aim of the PAL project is to conduct a systematic, comprehensive long-term follow-up of a cohort of Palestinian youth, now that they have reached adulthood (ages 30-40). The project makes use of a life event history approach that maps patterns of ciritical events that have occurred in the lives of the respondents since their high involvement in political conflict as adolescents. Using a resource model (broadly defined to include social, econmic, and political resources), the study will assess the degree and patterning of loss (and gain) of critical resouces across the transition to adulthood. This project is financially supported by the Jacobs Foundation.