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Aboud, F. E. (2006). Evaluation of an early childhood preschool program in rural Bangladesh. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 21(1), 46–60.
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Engle, P. L., Fernald, L. C., Alderman, H., Behrman, J., O'Gara, C., Yousafzai, A., de Mello, M.C., Hidrobo, M., Ulkuer, N., Ertem I., Iltus S., & The Global Child Development Steering Group. (2011). Strategies for reducing inequalities and improving developmental outcomes for young children in low‐income and middle‐income countries. The Lancet, 378(9799), 1339–1353.
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Kang, S. K., & Inzlicht, M. (2011). Stigma building blocks: How instruction and experience teach children about rejection by outgroups. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(3), 357–369.
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Mikton, D., MacMillan, H, Dua, T., & Betancourt, T.S. (2014). Integration of prevention of violence against children and early child development. Lancet, 2, e442-3.
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Panter-Brick, C., Burgess, A., Eggerman, M., McAllister, F., Pruett, K. and Leckman, J. F. (2014). Practitioner Review: Engaging fathers – recommendations for a game change in parenting interventions based on a systematic review of the global evidence. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Advanced online publication. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12280
Panter-Brick, C, & Leckman, JF. (2013). Editorial commentary: Resilience in child development–interconnected pathways to wellbeing. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 54 (4), 333-336. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12057
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Books / Chapters

Abramowitz, S., & Panter-Brick, C. (Eds.). (2016). Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Bloom, P. (2004). Descartes’ baby: How the science of child development explains what makes us human. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Bowman, B. T., Donovan, M. S., & Burns, M. S. (Eds.). (2001). Eager to learn: Educating our preschoolers. Washington, DC: National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences.
Britto, P. R., Engle, P. E., & Super, C. S. (2012). Handbook of early child development research and its impact on global policy. New York: Oxford University Press.
Britto, P.R., & Kagan S.L. (2010). Global status of early learning and development standards. In P. Peterson, E. Baker, & B. McGaw (Eds.), International encyclopedia of education. (2, 138–143). Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
Carter, C.S., Ahnert, L., Grossmann, K.E., Hrdy, S.B., Lamb, M.E., Porge,s S.W., & Sachser, N. (Eds.). (2005). Attachment and Bonding: A New Synthesis. Boston, MA: The MIT Press.
Christie, D. J., Wagner, R. V., & Winter, D. A. (Eds.). (2001). Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Century. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Connolly, P., & Hayden, J., with Levin, D. From conflict to peace building: The power of early childhood initiatives – Lessons from around the world. Redmond, WA: World Form Foundation. Retrieved from the World Forum Foundation.
Cowan, P. A., Cowan, C. P., Ablow, J. C., Johnson, V. K., Measelle, J. R. (2005). The family context of parenting in children’s adaptation to elementary school. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Christakis, E. (2016). The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups. New York, NY: Viking.
Farrington, D. P. (2003). Key results from the first forty years of the Cambridge Study in delinquent development. In T. P. Thornberry & M. Krohn (Eds.), Taking stock of delinquency: An overview of findings from contemporary longitudinal studies (pp. 137–184). New York, NY: Kluwer.
Heckman, J. J., & Krueger, A. B. (Eds.). (2003). Inequality in America: What role for human capital policies? Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.eace Psychology for the 21st Century. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
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Irwin, L. G., Siddiqui, A., & Hertzman, C. (2007). Early child development: A powerful equalizer. British Columbia, Canada: HELP Research Institute, College of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of British Columbia.
Kagan, S., Kauerz, K., & Tarrant, K. (2008). The early care and education teaching workforce at the fulcrum: An agenda for reform. New York, NY: Teacher's College Press.
Kağıtçıbaşı C. (2007). Family, self, and human development across cultures: Theory and applications (2nd ed.). London, UK: Routledge Academic Press.
Katz, P. A., & Kofkin, J. A. (1997). Race, gender, and young children. In S. S. Luthar, J. A. Burack, D. Cicchetti & J. R. Weisz (Eds.), Developmental psychopathology: Perspectives on adjustment, risk, and disorder (pp. 51–74). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Kohlberg, L. (1984). The psychology of moral development. New York, NY: Harper and Row.
Lamb, M. E. (Ed.). (2003). The role of the father in child development (4th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Leckman, J. F., Panter-Brick, C. S.,& Salah, R. (Eds.). (Nov 2014). Pathways to Peace: The transformative power of children and familes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
MacNair R. (2003). The psychology of peace: An introduction. Westport, CT: Praeger.
McCartney, K., & Phillips, D. A. (Eds.). (2006). Handbook of early childhood development. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.
Pruett K, & Pruett MK. (2009). Partnership parenting: How men and women parent differently and how if helps your kids and can strengthen your marriage. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.
Pruett KD. (2000). Fatherneed: Why father care is as essential as mother care to your child. New York, NY: The Free Press.
Pruett, KD. (1999). Me, myself, and I: How toddlers build their sense of self. New York: Goddard Press. Softcover edition (2000). New York: Goddard Press.
Pruett, KD. (1987). The nuturing father. New York: Warner Books
Richter, L., Dawes, A., & de Kadt, J. (2010). Early childhood. In I. Petersen, A. Bhana, A. J. Flisher, L. Swartz & L. Richter (Eds.), Promoting mental health in scarce-resource contexts (pp. 99–123). Cape Town, South Africa: Human Science Research Council.
Roylance, S., et al. (2012). The Family and the MDGs. Doha, Qatar: Doha Institute for Family Studies and Development. Retrieved from http://www.difi.org.qa/about/the-family-and-the-mdgs
Schweinhart, L. J., Montie, J., Xiang, Z., Barnett, W. S., Belfield, C. R., & Nores, M. (2005). Lifetime effects: The HighScope Perry preschool study through age 40. (Monographs of the HighScope Educational Research Foundation, 14). Ypsilanti, MI: HighScope Press.
Shonkoff, J. P., & Phillips, D. A. (Eds.). (2000). From neurons to neighborhoods: The science of early childhood development. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Cabrera, N. (Eds.) (2002). Handbook of father involvement: Multidisciplinary perspectives. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Tuna, A., & Hayden, J. (Eds.). (2010). Early childhood programs as the doorway to social cohesion: Application of Vygotsky’s ideas from an east-west perspective. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
World Association of Early Childhood Educators. (2006). Learning to Live Together in Peace from Early Childhood. Madrid, Spain: AMEI-WAECE Publications.
Heath, J., Zahedi, A. (Eds). (in press, available Nov 15, 2014). Children of Afghanistan: The Path to Peace. Texas: University of Texas Press.

Journals

Policy Briefs

Ager A, Annan J, Panter-Brick C (2013). Resilience - From conceptualization to effective intervention. Policy brief for humanitarian and development agencies. Open access (PDF)

Technical Reports

Britto, P. R., Yoshikawa, H., & Boller, K. (2011). Quality of early childhood development programs in global contexts: Rationale for investment, conceptual framework and implications for equity. Society for Research in Child Development Social Policy Report, 25(2).
Hommel, R., Freiberg, K., Lamb, C., Leech, M., Carr, Hampshire,A., Hay, I., A., Elias, G., Manning, M., Teague, R., & Batchelor, S. (2006). The pathways to prevention project: The first five years, 1999-2004. Sydney, Australia: Mission Australia and the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice & Governance, Griffith University.
Koçak, A. (2004). Evaluation report of the Father-Support Program. Istanbul, Turkey: Mother-Child Education Foundation Publications.
Koçak, A., & Bekman, S. (2009). Mothers speaking: A study on the experience of mothers with mother-child education program (MOCEP). Istanbul, Turkey: Boğaziçi University Faculty of Education.
Krug, E. G., et al. (Eds). (2002). World report on violence and health. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.
Moran, P., Ghate, D., & van der Merwe, A. (2004). What works in parenting support? A review of the international evidence. UK Department of Education and Skills Research Report RR574.
Richter, L. (2004). The importance of caregiver-child interactions for the survival and healthy development of young children: A review. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.
United Nations Children’s Fund. (2011). The state of the world’s children: Adolescence – An age of opportunity. New York, NY: UNICEF.
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). (2000). The Dakar Framework for Action on Education (EFA). Paris: UNESCO. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001211/121147e.pdf
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). (2011). The Dakar framework for action on education global monitoring report: The hidden crisis - armed conflict and education. Paris, France: UNESCO.
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). (2007). Strong foundations: Early childhood care and education. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Paper for the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2007.
United Nations Children’s Fund. (2006). The state of the world’s children 2006: excluded and invisible. New York, NY: UNICEF.
United Nations General Assembly. (2002). A world fit for children (A/RES/S-27/2).
United Nations General Assembly. (2000). United Nations millennium declaration (A/RES/55/2).
United Nations General Assembly. (1989). Convention on the rights of the child. United Nations Treaty Series, 1577(3).

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