title: And I Shot Her: On War, and the Creation of Inequities in the Development of Youths' Moral Capacities.
abstract: War creates a multifaceted web of inequities that encompass most levels of the ecology of youth development. These include psychosocial inequities bearing on war-exposed youth's limited access to medical and educational services and job-training and employment opportunities, as well as some of the unique psychological sequelae of trauma exposure. In this chapter we put forth a twofold argument. First, we argue that the protracted hardships of war also create enduring psychological inequities that go beyond the well-documented psychosocial needs and psychological trauma, and encompass other aspects of youths' healthy development; these are inequities inasmuch as they represent profound alterations of the developmental pathways available to war-affected youth. Second, we maintain that the psychological sciences must strive to understand such longstanding developmental inequities even if we do not, at this time, have the tools to fully address them.
authors.affiliation: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States. Electronic address: wainryb@psych.utah.edu.
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wainryb
authors.affiliation: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.
authors.forename: Stacia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bourne
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D041923:Adolescent Development; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D004493:Education; D004651:Employment; D000069581:Exposure to Violence; D006296:Health Services; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D035863:Moral Development; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D014857:Warfare
keywords: Meaning-making; Moral development; Political conflict; Psychological inequities; Violence exposure; War-affected youth