Children and Violence : Agency, Experience, and Representation in and Beyond Armed Conflict

• Autore: Bameka Christelle Molima
• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 pages)
• Altri autori: BarrettJastine C KamaraMohamed HansonKarl DrumblMark A
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- About the Editors -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Common Abbreviations -- Selected Treaties and Instruments -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 Definitions and Terminology -- 1.3 Additional Cross-Cutting Themes -- 1.3.1 Agency -- 1.3.2 Reconciliation, Restoration, and Vibrant Cultures of Juvenile Rights -- 1.3.3 International Relations and North-South -- 1.4 Roadmap -- 1.5 Concluding By Opening: Peering Beyond -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Section I Joining and Leaving Armed Fights -- 2 Safeguarding Futures: Rethinking Preventative Approaches to Protect Minors From Recruitment and Use in Colombia -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Background to the Violence and Responses Thereto -- 2.2.1 The Colombian Armed Conflict -- 2.2.2 Ombudsperson's Office - Role, Efforts, and Timeframe -- 2.3 Data and Methodology -- 2.4 Results -- 2.4.1 The Actors Across Time -- 2.4.2 Recruitment and Use Across the Territory -- 2.4.3 Strategies By Actor -- 2.5 Discussion -- 2.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 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 the Congo -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Research Background and Framework -- 3.3 Method and Analysis -- 3.4 Trajectories of Former Child Soldiers -- 3.4.1 Escaping the 'State of Childhood' and Acquiring a 'Military Spirit' -- 3.4.2 Returning to Civilian Life, Not to Childhood -- 3.4.3 Negative Perceptions of the Kadogos in the Communities -- 3.4.4 Prospects of a Return to Civilian Life -- 3.4.5 Necessary Transactions - The Reintegration Programme as an 'Entre-Lieux' -- 3.4.6 Work as a Central Aspect of Achievement. ; 3.4.7 Family Unit, as a Hierarchical Space in Which Values and Duties Are Distributed -- 3.4.8 Lack of Medical Attention as an Example of the Government's Failure to Protect Them -- 3.4.9 Strategies to Become Full Members of the Community -- 3.5 Conclusion: Youth in Conflict and Post-Conflict D.R.C. as a State of Constant Flux -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Former Child Soldiers: Persistent Conceptions of Childhood, and the Long Road of Transitional Justice in Uganda -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Conceptions of Childhoods and Child Soldiers -- 4.3 T.J. and the Wheels of Time in Uganda -- 4.4 Adult Former Child Soldiers and the Influence of Conceptions of Childhood -- 4.5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Sulh as Restorative Justice for Child Soldiers -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Reality of Child Soldiers -- 5.2.1 The General Issue -- 5.2.2 Prevailing Responses: D.D.R. and Retributive Justice -- 5.3 The Child Soldier, a Victim Or a Criminal? -- 5.3.1 The First Approach: Child Soldiers Exclusively as Victims -- 5.3.2 The Second Approach: It Is Possible to Hold Child Soldiers Accountable -- 5.3.3 A Constructive Path Forward -- 5.4 Restorative Justice in Theory and Practice -- 5.4.1 The General Framework of Restorative Justice -- 5.4.2 The Use of Restorative Justice Practice With Child Soldiers -- 5.4.3 Sulh as a Restorative Justice Practice in the Arab World -- 5.5 The Use of Sulh With Child Soldiers in Certain Arab Countries -- 5.5.1 Experiences of Sulh in Iraq and Yemen -- 5.5.2 Challenges and Opportunities: How Can Sulh Be Used? -- 5.6 Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- Section II Cross-Overs: Fights Beyond Conventional Armed Conflict -- 6 Children and Cyberconflict: (Re)assessing Harm and the Capacity of Legal Instruments to Protect -- 6.1 Introduction. ; 6.2 Beyond Kinetic Warfare: Understanding How Cyberconflict Affects and Is Affected By Children -- 6.2.1 Harms Resulting From Disruptions to Normal Life -- 6.2.2 Expanding the Scope of Participation -- 6.3 (Re)Conceptualising Harm in Response to Cyberconflict -- 6.4 Assessing the Capacity of Legal Frameworks to Respond to the Forms of Harm That Cyberconflict Poses to Children -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- 7 Guilty Victims Or Not?: Non-Punishment of Child Trafficking Victims and Child Soldiers Under International Law -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Child Trafficking Victims and Child Soldiers: Definitional Complexities and Overlaps Under International Law -- 7.3 Child Trafficking Victims (Presumably) 'Compelled' to Commit Crime and (Former) 'Forced' Child Soldiers: Victims, Perpetrators Or Both? -- 7.3.1 V.C.L. and A.N. V. the United Kingdom: The E.Ct.H.R., Article 4 E.C.H.R. and the Non-Punishment Principle -- 7.3.2 The Prosecutor V. Dominic Ongwen: The I.C.C. Prosecution of a Former L.R.A. Child Soldier for Crimes Committed as an Adult Commander -- 7.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8 Children as Informers and Denouncers -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 From Fairy-Tale to Tragedy -- 8.3. Condemnatory Letters From Children -- 8.4 Child Informers: Not Always So Special -- 8.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 9 Afghanistan's Bacha Posh Girls: Unspoken Gender-Based Violence and Psychological Trauma Within the Broader Context of an Armed Conflict -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Afghanistan's Bacha Posh Girls -- 9.3 Bacha Posh Girls in the Broader Context of Children in Armed Conflicts -- 9.4 Gender-Based Violence and Psychological Trauma -- 9.5 Reflections On International Law -- 9.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Section III Imagining Children and Fights: Representation, Ethics, Aesthetics. ; 10 Childhood, Victimhood, and Agency in Namina Forna's The Gilded Ones and Kim Nguyen's War Witch -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Child and Childhood -- 10.3 Victimhood -- 10.4 Agency -- 10.5 Child-Victim-Agent -- 10.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 11 Tools of War, Tools of State: Stories of the Child Combatant in Global North-South Relations -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 (Re)Drawing the Limits of the World: Stories of the War and the Child -- 11.3 The Promises and Pitfalls of the Hyphen: The Stories of the Child-Soldier and of the Junior-Soldier -- 11.3.1 'Lost Childhood': Child-Soldiers as the 'Tools of War' -- 11.3.2 'Be the Best': British Junior-Soldiers as 'Tools of State' -- 11.4 Conclusion: Keeping the World Safe: Stories of Revulsion and Celebration -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 12 Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Rwanda: In Search of Recognition and Advocacy -- 12.1 Introduction: Genocide, Sexual Violence, and Children Born of Rape in Rwanda -- 12.2 Post-Genocide Rwanda -- 12.3 Perspectives of Youth Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Stigma, Rejection and Marginalisation -- 12.4 Victimhood, Recognition, Advocacy, and Implications -- 12.4.1 Advocating for Victim Status -- 12.4.2 Seeking Recognition and Voice: Challenges and Implications -- 12.5 Conclusion: The Complexity of Victimhood for Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Rwanda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 13 Child Soldiers and the Right of Self-Defence -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 The Problem of Mass Violence -- 13.3 The Legal Context for Intervention in Mass Violence -- 13.4 Communities and Self-Defence -- 13.5 The Rights of Self-Defence in the Context of Mass Violence -- 13.6 Jewish Child Soldiers in the Holocaust -- 13.7 The Guatemalan Civil War -- 13.8 The Yazidi Genocide -- 13.9 Child Soldiers: The New Realism -- Notes -- Bibliography. ; Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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'.
• Titolo autorizzato: Children and Violence
• ISBN: 9781040343227; 9781032710716
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910985983903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II