Dr Christine Ryan 

Lecturer of Politics and Global Studies 

Business Law and Sport 

Email:

Christine.Ryan@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

01962 826477 

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Biography

Dr Christine Ryan BA, MA, PhD is a lecturer of Politics and Global Studies. Christine holds a BA in Sociology from DePaul University (Chicago), an MA in International Politics from the University of Manchester and received her PhD in Politics from SOAS, University of London in 2009. Her specialisation and research interests are war and conflict.

Expertise

War and Security Studies, Sub-Saharan Africa

Publications

• The Children of War: Child Soldiers as Victims and Participants in the Sudan Civil War (2012) London, I.B. Tauris
•  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’ 
•  2007 Routledge, The Round Table, December Issue, Book Review, ‘Forced Migration in Eastern Africa: Democratization, Structural Adjustment, and Migrants’, by Cassandra R. Veney
• 2007 Routledge, The Round Table, May/June Issue, Book Review, ‘Who’s Afraid of Children? Children, Conflict and International Relations’, by Helen Brocklehurst.
• 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 

• 'Methodological and theoretical approaches to researching children: Lessons from the former child soldiers in Southern Sudan' (2012) in 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’

Research Interests

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

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

2007 Awarded Central Research Fund Grant, University of London.