Christine Ryan

• Children and War
• Security Studies
• Political Sociology of War
• Media and War
• Conflict and Development
• War Crimes
• War Veterans

Christine is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Global Studies. She holds a BA in Sociology from DePaul University (Chicago), an MA in International Politics from the University of Manchester and she received her PhD in Politics from SOAS, University of London in 2009.

• War and Security
• Sub-Saharan Africa

Funding awards

• 2013 University of Winchester Learning and Teaching Research Funding
• 2007 Central Research Fund Grant, University of London

Monographs

• CChildren of War: Child Soldiers as victims and participants in the Sudan Civil War (2012) London: I.B. Tauris

Book reviews

• 2013 Book review of South Sudan: From Revolution to Independence' by LeRiche and Arnold. In Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Book Review.
• 2007 Book review of Forced Migration in Eastern Africa: Democratization, Structural Adjustment, and Migrants, by Cassandra R. Veney. In The Round Table, December Issue, Routledge.
• 2007 Book review of Who's Afraid of Children? Children, Conflict and International Relations, by Helen Brocklehurst. In The Round Table, May/June Issue, Routledge.

Book chapters

• 2013 'An investigation into the NGOs who assist child soldiers in Southern Sudan', in H. Embacher, G. Prontera, A. Lichtblau, J-D. Steinert, W. Aschauer, D. Galasinski and J.Buckley (eds) Children and War, Past and Present. Solihull: Helion.

Other publications

• 2007 - 2008 Southern Eye Limited magazine and newspaper, investigative articles & weekly column, 'Juba', 'South Sudan', 'Status of the Implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement', 'The State of Girls' Education in South Sudan'.

Conferences

• 2013 Organiser of 5th International Children of War Conference, University of Winchester, 4-6 September.
• 2013 'The Tunisian Revolution as experienced by street children'. Paper presented at the 5th International Children of War Conference, University of Winchester, 4-6 September.
• 2013 "The dreams and realities of the Tunisian Revolution: has the aftermath of the Tunisian Revolution served those who needed it most? A study into the lives of the street children of Tunisia". Children and War: Past and Present, University of Salzburg.
  2011 September, Conference Speaker, The Lost Childhoods of Wartime, University of Reading, 'Lessons from the Field: A case study of NGOs in Southern Sudan working with former child soldiers of the SPLA'.
• 2010 September, Conference Speaker, Children and War: Past and Present, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, 'Methodological and Theoretical Approaches that Emerge from the Case Study of Former Child Soldiers in Southern Sudan'.
• 2008 October, Conference Speaker, The Politics of Peace and Conflict, Political Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, 'Southern Sudan: A case study of testimony and theory'.
• 2008 September, Conference Speaker, African Children in Focus: A Paradigm Shift in Methodology and Theory?, Netherlands African Studies Association, Leiden, the Netherlands.
• 2006 November, Presenter, Child Soldiers: Who are they? Why are they fighting? How we can help?, SOAS Amnesty International Society, 'Child Soldiers in Southern Sudan and Northern Uganda: Victimisation within Conflict Studies'.