Generation Under Fire: Children & Violence in Colombia

by Robin Kirk

66 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1994

About the author

Kirk's nonfiction book about human rights heroes, Righting Wrongs: 20 human rights heroes around the world, is available from Chicago Review Press. The book won the 2022 Foreward Reviews Silver for best YA nonfiction in 2022. Kirk is the author of The Bond Trilogy: The Bond, The Hive Queen, and The Mother's Wheel. Foreward Reviews awarded The Bond its Bronze award for best YA in 2018. Kirk's other books include More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs and America’s War in Colombia (PublicAffairs) and The Monkey’s Paw: New Chronicles from Peru (University of Massachusetts Press). She coedits The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke University) and is an editor of Duke University Press’s World Readers series.

Kirk is a Faculty Co-Director of the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute and is a founding member of the Pauli Murray Project, an initiative of the center that seeks to use the legacy of this Durham daughter to examine the region’s past of slavery, segregation and continuing economic inequality. An author and human rights advocate, Kirk is a lecturer in Duke's Department of Cultural Anthropology.

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Reviews

[Sebastian Beltran · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow whatta read. Such a terrible, yet accepted in Columbia of police/ private militas murdering those in poor neighborhoods, particularly children. Well organized to talk about Columbia’s biggest cities, how the government supports minors - or lack thereof, and recommended reforms that need to take place. Amazing quick read