Tamanna M. Shah is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio University, USA. Her research explores the intersections of comparative political sociology, gender, and armed conflict, and the transformative forces driving social change and confronting inequality.

• Children and Youth in Armed Conflict: Responses, Resistance, and Portrayal in Media; Tamanna M. ShahPart I. Children and Youth Responses and Resistance in MediaChapter 1. Between Hope and Death: Shaheed as Equipment for Living Amid Palestine’s Youth; Sophia KolenoChapter 2. “Children of the Balkan Wars”: Responses and Resistance to War-Related Media Content in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia; Eva Tamara Asboth and Michaela Griesbeck OPEN ACCESSChapter 3. Diaries of War: Children's Narratives and Agency in Ukraine and Syria; Iuliia Hoban and Denise R. MuroChapter 4. Children and Youth Art as a Form of Resistance in Conflict Zones; Raghu Yadav and Rose WilliamsonPart II. Media Portrayal of Narratives and Lived ExperiencesChapter 5. Media Intervention for Young Children During Mass Trauma Experiences: Promoting Theory of Mind and Resilience; Erin L. RyanChapter 6. Children Throwing Stones as a Metaphor of Counter-Hegemony; Kazım Tolga GürelChapter 7. Beginning of Life, End of Life: Examining Online Memorials of Children in Sites of Armed Conflict; Aya Diab and Danielle L. JohnsonChapter 8. Capturing Resistance: Unveiling Visual Narratives of Youth Activism in the Israel-Palestine 2023 Conflict Through Media Posted on Instagram; Sonali Jha and Mary-Magdalene N. ChumbowChapter 9. The Evolving Family and the Lyrical Child; Haoyue ZhangChapter 10. Loss of Naivety and Innocence: War Childhood in the Nineties Balkans; Julija OvsecChapter 11. Children as Participants in Terrorism: Uche Aguh’s Sambisa (2016) as a Paradigm; Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah and Damilare OgunmekanChapter 12. Resistance in Youth Literature; Omama Al-LawatiPart III. Emotions and TechnologyChapter 13. Healing Through Empathy: Machine Learning for Adaptive Therapy for Children and Youth in Armed Conflict; Javed M. Shah and Tamanna M. Shah