By Dana Townsend, Laura K. Taylor, Christine E. Merrilees, Andrea Furey, Marcie C. Goeke-Morey, Peter Shirlow, and E. Mark Cummings
Lessons from Youth in Northern Ireland: Building Measures, Methods, and Interventions | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. J. Lawrence Aber. I remember being a doctoral student of Edward Zigler’s at Yale in the 1970s and learning for the first time about the emerging work of Urie Bronfenbrenner at Cornell…
The Promise of Multisystem Research on Risk and Resilience in Development | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Ann S. Masten. Multisystem perspectives and methods are essential for understanding and countering the challenges posed to child development and wellbeing by political violence, as well as by…
Individual Lives and Social History: Extending the Lessons of Macrosystem Research beyond Northern Ireland | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Andres Molano. In the SRCD Monograph, Townsend, Taylor, Merrilees, Furey, Goeke-Morey, Shirlow, and Cummings (2020) explore how the longitudinal associations between sectarian violence and emotional insecurity are…
Overview: Youth Development in Northern Ireland | Video
Addressing a gap in more complete understanding of the impact of the social ecology of political violence on youth adjustment, an innovative methodology for assessing the influence of the macrosystem…
Getting Started: An Insider’s View of an International Longitudinal Study | Video
Author E. Mark Cummings describes how this study was launched and details the vital role played by colleagues in Northern Ireland. He explains the many contributions of both graduate and…
Author Interview: Youth in Northern Ireland | Video
In these videos, Monograph Matters Associate Editor, Lauren J. Myers, talks with Dana Townsend and E. Mark Cummings to discuss the SRCD Monograph…
The Social Ecology of Northern Ireland: In-class Video and Discussion | Instructional Materials
This resource includes a short news report about intergroup relations in Northern Ireland and discussion questions to help undergraduate or graduate students apply Bronfenbrenner’s social-ecology model to sociopolitical contexts.
Key Findings from “Youth in Northern Ireland” | PowerPoint
Authors Dana Townsend and E. Mark Cummings prepared this PowerPoint document to summarize goals, methods, and findings of their monograph, Youth in Northern Ireland: Linking Violence Exposure, Emotional Insecurity…
What Do Kids Understand About the Political Process? | Infographic
Researchers sought to learn more about the political development of the nation’s children. They interviewed nearly 200 elementary-school-aged children before and after the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. The…