Research handbook on child soldiers

Full Title:

Research handbook on child soldiers

Other Author:

Drumbl, Mark A.
Barrett, Jastine C.

Statement of Responsibility:

edited by Mark A. Drumbl and Jastine C. Barrett

Series:

Research handbooks in international law

Language:

English

Description:

xix, 542 p. : ill

Summary:

Child soldiers remain poorly understood and inadequately protected, despite significant media attention and many policy initiatives. This Research Handbook aims to redress this troubling gap....

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Child soldiers remain poorly understood and inadequately protected, despite significant media attention and many policy initiatives. This Research Handbook aims to redress this troubling gap. It offers a reflective, fresh and nuanced review of the complex issue of child soldiering. The Handbook brings together scholars from six continents, diverse experiences, and a broad range of disciplines. Along the way, it unpacks the life-cycle of youth and militarization: from recruitment to demobilization to return to civilian life. The overarching aim of the Handbook is to render the invisible visible – the contributions map the unmapped and chart new directions. Challenging prevailing assumptions and conceptions, the Research Handbook on Child Soldiers focuses on adversity but also capacity: emphasising the resilience, humanity, and potentiality of children affected (rather than ‘afflicted’) by armed conflict.

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Contents:

• Preface • Introduction • PART I THE CONCEPT AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE CHILD SOLDIER • 1. In Search of the Lost Kingdom of Childhood...

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• Preface • Introduction • PART I THE CONCEPT AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE CHILD SOLDIER • 1. In Search of the Lost Kingdom of Childhood • 2. Challenges for the Protection of Child Victims of Recruitment and Use in an Era of Complex Armed Conflicts: The Colombian Case • 3. The Construction of Gender in Child Soldiering in the Special Court for Sierra Leone • 4. ‘We Were Controlled, We Were Not Allowed to Express Our Sexuality, Our Intimacy Was Suppressed’: Sexual Violence Experienced by Boys • 5. Getting Tambo Out of Limbo: Exploring Alternative Legal Frameworks that are More Sensitive to the Agency of Children and Young People in Armed Conflict • 6. This is Belonging: Children and British Military Recruitment • PART II CONDUCT: AGENCY, CAPACITY AND RESILIENCE • 7. Child Soldiers in Historical and Comparative Perspective: Creating a Space for Data-Driven Analysis • 8. The Voiceless Child Soldiers of Afghanistan • 9. Weaponizing the Weak: The Role of Children in Terrorist Groups • 10. Retracing the Journey of Child Soldiers and Looking for the Path to Return Them Home: A Report from Southern Philippines • 11. Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence within Armed Groups - A Case Study of Northern Uganda • 12. Social Reintegration Following Armed Conflict in Northern Uganda: How Former Child Soldier Young Mothers Use Symbolic Tools
• PART III ENCOUNTERS WITH THE LAW • 13. The Regional African Legal Framework on Children: A Template for More Robust Action on Children and Armed Conflict? • 14. Minors and Miners: Accountability Beyond Child Soldiering in the Democratic Republic of Congo • 15. Crimes Committed by Child Soldiers: An Argument for Coherence • 16. Child Soldiers in International Courtrooms: Unqualified Perpetrators, Erratic Witnesses and Irreparable Victims? • 17. Dominic Ongwen on Trial: Problematizing Definitional Boundaries and Exploring the Possibilities of Socialization • 18. Child Soldiers and Asylum – Duality or Dilemma? • PART IV AFTERWORLD(S)/AFTERWARDS: TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND BEYOND • 19. Navigating the Mystical: Child Soldiers and Reintegration Rituals in Northern Uganda • 20. Child Agency and Resistance to Discourses within the Paris Principles in Rehabilitation and Reintegration Processes of Former Child Soldiers in Northern Uganda • 21. Children Associated with Boko Haram: Disassociation, Protection, Accountability and Reintegration • 22. Do No Harm: How Reintegration Programmes for Former Child Soldiers Can Cause Unintended Harm • 23. How to Find the ‘Hidden’ Girl Soldier? Two Sets of Suggestions Arising from Liberia • Epilogue • Index

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Publisher & Date:

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2019.

Date of Publication:

2019

Publisher:

Edward Elgar

Classification:

D 31.4

ISBN:

9781788114479 (hbk)
9781789903324 (pbk)
9781788114486 (ebook)