Bringing together academic and practitioner points of view, this edited collection shows how violence enters into ordinary, routine practices of childhood and children's experiences. The contributing authors seek to understand how violence is enacted against children in infancy, adolescence, in school, in care, at home and on the street.

J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat, Université d'Etat d'Haiti, Haiti Nelly Ali, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Sylvia Meichsner, University of Essex, UK Amandine Bollinger, UNICEF, UK Alma Gottlieb, University of Illinois, USA Trefor Lloyd, Boys Development Project, UK Claudia Seymour, SOAS, University of London, UK Deborah Haines, Independent Scholar, UK

1. Everyday Violence and Social Recognition; Karen Wells and Heather Montgomery 2. After the End of Days: Childhood, Catastrophe and the Violence of Everyday Life in Post-Earthquake Haiti; J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat 3. The Pervasive Nature of Violence in the Day-to-Day Lives of Street Children; Nelly Ali 4. A Hard Hand for the Sake of God: The Distinction Between Positive and Negative Violence in Faith-Based Childcare; Sylvia Meichsner 5. The Role of Residential Homes in the Care of Orphans Affected by HIV; Amandine Bollinger 6. First Acts of Small Violence: Reflections on Breastfeeding and Enemas in West Africa; Alma Gottlieb 7. Young Children and Conflict Resolution; Trefor Lloyd 8. Everyday Violence and War in the Kivus, DRC; Claudia Seymour 9. How does Conflict and Violence Impact upon Children and their Education? Experiences and Learning from the Humanitarian Field; Deborah Haines