Children and Violence

Agency, Experience, and Representation in and beyond Armed Conflict
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-71071-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 573 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bameka, Christelle Molima

Barrett, Jastine C.

Kamara, Mohamed

Hanson, Karl

Drumbl, Mark A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Christelle Molima Bameka is Scientific Coordinator of the Law and Society Initiative of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). She is the author of Enfants soldats et reinsertion socio- communautaire. Questions de responsabilité pénale en droit international et national congolais (2022).

Jastine C. Barrett is an independent human rights consultant, international lawyer, and academic based in the United Kingdom. She is the author of Child Perpetrators on Trial: Insights from Post- Genocide Rwanda (2019) and co- editor of the Research Handbook on Child Soldiers (with Mark A. Drumbl, 2019).

Mohamed Kamara is Professor of French and Africana Studies and chair of the Romance Languages department at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. He is the author of When Mosquitoes Come Marching In: A Play in Spectacles (2021) and Colonial Legacies in Francophone African Literature: The School and the Invention of the Bourgeoisie (2023).

Karl Hanson is Director of the Centre for Children’s Rights Studies and Full Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

Mark A. Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor at Washington and Lee University, School of Law, where he also serves as Director of the University’s Transnational Law Institute. He is the author of Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law (2007), Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy (2012), and Informers Up Close: Stories from Communist Prague (2024, with Barbora Holá); and co- editor (with Jastine Barrett) of the Research Handbook on Child Soldiers (2019) and of Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions (2024, with Caroline Fournet).