Full Description
This multi- disciplinary volume provides an innovative approach to children and violence, looking beyond the existing literature that focuses on child soldiers in the 'Global South.'
Harnessing expert contributions from over a dozen countries, the book examines the relationship between children and violence, with a focus on children ensnared in military conflict, embroiled in criminal gangs, and enmeshed in political activism. It analyses how children join fights, how they fight, and what happens to them after fighting officially ends. It addresses cutting- edge issues such as cyberwars, self-defence, intergenerational trauma, gender fluidity, racism and state surveillance. Throughout, the book underscores the need to respect the agency and dignity of children and youth, to build cultures of juvenile rights, and to think critically of the place of the child amid global power politics and decolonisation. Through accessible writing, and the provision of considerable new data, this book supports advocacy work and will enrich teaching and spark further academic research.
This book will be of great interest to students of International Law, Human Rights, Childhood Studies, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Post- Conflict Studies, and Security Studies.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction Part I: Joining and Leaving Armed Fights Chapter 2. Safeguarding Futures: Rethinking Preventative Approaches to Protect Minors from Recruitment and Use in Colombia Chapter 3. From Child Soldiers to Struggling Citizens: Children and Youth in a Broken and Uneven Social Contract in Conflict and Post-Conflict Democratic Republic of Congo Chapter 4. Former Child Soldiers, Persistent Conceptions of Childhood, and the Long Road of Transitional Justice in Uganda Chapter 5. Sulh as Restorative Justice for Child Soldiers Part II: Cross-Overs: Fights Beyond Conventional Armed Conflict Chapter 6. Children and Cyberconflict: (Re)assessing Harm and the Capacity of Legal Instruments to Protect Chapter 7. Guilty Victims or Not? Non-Punishment of Child Trafficking Victims and Child Soldiers Under International Law Chapter 8. Children as Informers and Denouncers Chapter 9. Afghanistan's Bacha Posh Girls: Unspoken Gender-Based Violence and Psychological Trauma Within the Broader Context of an Armed Conflict Part III: Imagining Children and Fights: Representation, Ethics, Aesthetics Chapter 10. Childhood, Victimhood, and Agency in Namina Forna's The Gilded Ones and Kim Nguyen's War Witch Chapter 11. Tools of War, Tools of State: Stories of the Child Combatant in Global North-South Relations Chapter 12. Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Rwanda: In Search of Recognition and Advocacy Chapter 13. Child Soldiers and the Right of Self-Defence
