Dr Chessie Baldwin

As postdoctoral research associate on the AHRC Standard Grant 'Children of War: Evolving Local and Global Understandings of Child Soldiering in Conflict, 1940-2000’, I support the research on the evolution of humanitarian and human rights actions against the recruitment and use of children and youth in armed conflict. With particular emphasis on the Horn of Africa, I examine youth experiences of disarmament, demoblisation, rehabilitation and reintegration programming.

My doctoral thesis mapped the dynamic roles women have occupied in conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, addressing the pervasive sidelining of women’s voices in collective discourse by centring non-exceptional women’s experiences and memories.