Childhood Youth Identity And Violence In Formerly Displaced Communities In Uganda

Author : Victoria Flavia Namuggala
Publisher : Springer
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319966281

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Childhood, Youth Identity, and Violence in Formerly Displaced Communities in Uganda by Victoria Flavia Namuggala Pdf

This volume provides a critical assessment of the mainstream western childhood constructions and their impact to the developing world. Using African feminist and indigenous epistemological frameworks, the volume decolonizes the understanding of childhood, children, and youth. Specifically, the volume presents Global South contestations to mainstream western constructions by exploring alternative notions to standardized universal understanding of childhood. The author further deliberates childhood as a human right, exploring how armed violence hinders realization of such rights assessing humanitarian assistance during armed violence. Besides childhood, the volume explores the complex intersectional nature of youthhood and its cultural relevance to formerly displaced communities and how this manifests in access to and use of humanitarian assistance.

Author : Karen Wells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9798216153948

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Teen Lives around the World [2 volumes] by Karen Wells Pdf

This two-volume encyclopedia looks at the lives of teenagers around the world, examining topics from a typical school day to major issues that teens face today, including bullying, violence, sexuality, and social and financial pressures. Teenagers are living in a rapidly changing and increasingly interconnected yet unequal world. Whether they live in Australia or Zimbabwe, they have in common that they are between childhood and adulthood and increasingly aware of how inequality is affecting their lives and futures. This encyclopedia gives a different perspective based on the experiences of teens in 60 countries. Each entry gives the reader a brief sketch of a country to helps readers to understand how geography, history, economics, and politics shape teen life. The entries include a country overview and cover the following topics: Schooling and Education; Extracurricular Activities: Art, Music, and Sports; Family and Social Life; Religions and Cultural Rites of Passage; Rights and Legal Status; and Issues Today. Special sidebars, called Teen Voices, appear throughout the text, and include a description of a typical day in the life of a teen in various countries. Students will be able to gain a better understanding of what life is like around the world for their peers and will be able to easily make cross-cultural comparisons between different countries.

Author : Gregory Arief D. Liem,Dennis M. McInerney
Publisher : IAP
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781648021626

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Promoting Motivation and Learning in Contexts by Gregory Arief D. Liem,Dennis M. McInerney Pdf

The body of literature has pointed to the benefits of educational interventions in facilitating improvement in school motivation and, by implication, learning and achievement. However, it is now recognized that most extant motivation and learning enhancing intervention programs are grounded in Western motivational and learning perspectives, such as attribution, expectancy-value, implicit theories of intelligence, self-determination, and self-regulated learning theories. Further, empirical evidence for the positive impacts of these interventions seems to have primarily emerged from North American settings. The cross-cultural transferability and translatability of such educational interventions, however, are often assumed rather than critically assessed and adapted before their implementation in other cultures. In this volume, the editors invited scholars to re-assess their intervention work from a sociocultural lens. Regardless of the different theoretical perspectives and strategies they adopt in their interventions, these scholars are in unison on the importance of taking into account sociodemographic backgrounds of the students and sociocultural contexts of the interventions to optimize the benefits of such interventions. Indeed, placing culture at the heart of designing, implementing, and evaluating educational interventions could be a key not only to strengthen the effectiveness and efficacy of educational interventions, but also to ensure that students of a wider and more diverse range of educational and cultural backgrounds reap the benefits from such interventions. This volume constitutes the foundation towards a deeper and more systematic understanding of culturally relevant and responsive educational interventions.

Author : Okon Akiba
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030253547

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Preventive Diplomacy, Security, and Human Rights in West Africa by Okon Akiba Pdf

This edited volume focuses on the development and conflict prevention mechanism of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS. The contributors discuss complex socio-political and economic issues and use a cross disciplinary approach to treat most of the dominant research questions in the field. The chapters come nicely together in a kaleidoscope of knowledge deriving from scholarly investigative traditions in political science, anthropology, economics, law, and sociology. The book is conceived as a source of reference and for graduate courses in African politics, development, human rights, transnational law, and international public policy.

Author : K. Wells,E. Burman,H. Montgomery,A. Watson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137322609

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Childhood, Youth and Violence in Global Contexts by K. Wells,E. Burman,H. Montgomery,A. Watson Pdf

Bringing together academic and practitioner points of view, this edited collection shows how violence enters into ordinary, routine practices of childhood and children's experiences. The contributing authors seek to understand how violence is enacted against children in infancy, adolescence, in school, in care, at home and on the street.

Author : Bård Mæland
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Child soldiers
ISBN : 1433109514

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Culture, Religion, and the Reintegration of Female Child Soldiers in Northern Uganda by Bård Mæland Pdf

Bard M[µ]land is Professor of Systematic Theology at the School of Mission and Theology in Stavanger, Norway, where he also serves as the President. Mzeland previously served as a chaplain and researcher in the Norwegian Defence Forces. He is the author of many books and scholarly articles within interreligious hermeneutics, systematic theology, and military ethics. His previous book is Enduring Military Boredom (2009). Mland is the founding editor of The Journal of Military Ethics. --Book Jacket.

Author : Angela Veale,Aki Stavrou
Publisher : Institute for Security Studies
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Charities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121852839

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Violence, Reconciliation and Identity by Angela Veale,Aki Stavrou Pdf

Author : Zachary Lomo,Lucy Hovil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121891092

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Behind the Violence by Zachary Lomo,Lucy Hovil Pdf

Author : John Tobin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1600 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191544170

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The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child by John Tobin Pdf

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most extensive and widely ratified international human rights treaty. This Commentary offers a comprehensive analysis of each of the substantive provisions in the Convention and its Optional Protocols on Children and Armed Conflict and the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Pornography. It offers a detailed insight into the drafting history of these instruments, the scope and nature of the rights accorded to children and the obligations imposed on states to secure the implementation of these rights. In doing so, it draws on the work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, international, regional and domestic courts, academic and interdisciplinary scholarly analyses. It is of relevance to anyone working on matters affecting children including government officials, policy makers, judicial officers, lawyers, educators, social workers, health professionals, academics, aid and humanitarian workers, and members of civil society.

Author : Shelley McKeown,Reeshma Haji,Neil Ferguson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319298696

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Understanding Peace and Conflict Through Social Identity Theory by Shelley McKeown,Reeshma Haji,Neil Ferguson Pdf

This volume brings together perspectives on social identity and peace psychology to explore the role that categorization plays in both conflict and peace-building. To do so, it draws leading scholars from across the world in a comprehensive exploration of social identity theory and its application to some of the world’s most pressing problems, such as intrastate conflict, uprising in the middle east, the refugee crisis, global warming, racism and peace building. A crucial theme of the volume is that social identity theory affects all of us, no matter whether we are currently in a state of conflict or one further along in the peace process. The volume is organized into two sections. Section 1 focuses on the development of social identity theory. Grounded in the pioneering work of Dr. Henri Tajfel, section 1 provides the reader with a historical background of the theory, as well as its current developments. Then, section 2 brings together a series of country case studies focusing on issues of identity across five continents. This section enables cross-cultural comparisons in terms of methodology and findings, and encourages the reader to identify general applications of identity to the understanding of peace as well as applications that may be more relevant in specific contexts. Taken together, these two sections provide a contemporary and diverse account of the state of social identity research in conflict situations and peace psychology today. It is evident that any account of peace requires an intricate understanding of identity both as a cause and consequence of conflict, as well as a potential resource to be harnessed in the promotion and maintenance of peace. Understanding Peace and Conflict Through Social Identity Theory: Contemporary Global Perspectives aims to help achieve such an understanding and as such is a valuable resource to those studying peace and conflict, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, public policy makers, and all those interested in the ways in which social identity impacts our world.

Author : Sabine Lee,Susan Bartels,Heide Glaesmer
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782832517857

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Children Born of War: Challenges and Opportunities at the Intersection of War Tension and Post-War Justice and Reconstruction by Sabine Lee,Susan Bartels,Heide Glaesmer Pdf

Author : Chandi Fernando,Michel Ferrari
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461463757

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Handbook of Resilience in Children of War by Chandi Fernando,Michel Ferrari Pdf

Their frightened, angry faces are grim reminders of the reach of war. They are millions of children, orphaned, displaced, forced to flee or to fight. And just as they have myriad possibilities for trauma, their lives also hold great potential for recovery. The Handbook of Resilience in Children of War explores these critical phenomena at the theoretical, research, and treatment levels, beginning with the psychosocial effects of exposure to war. Narratives of young people's lives in war zones as diverse as Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Columbia, and Sudan reveal the complexities of their experiences and the meanings they attach to them, providing valuable keys to their rehabilitation. Other chapters identify strengths and limitations of current interventions, and of constructs of resilience as applied to youth affected by war. Throughout this cutting-edge volume, the emphasis is on improving the field through more relevant research and accurate, evidence-based interventions, in such areas as: An ecological resilience approach to promoting mental health in children of war. Child soldiers and the myth of the ticking time bomb. The Child Friendly Spaces postwar intervention program. The role of education for war-zone immigrant and refugee students. Political violence, identity, and adjustment in children. The Handbook of Resilience in Children of War is essential reading for researchers, scientist-practitioners, and graduate students in diverse fields including clinical child, school, and developmental psychology; child and adolescent psychiatry; social work; counseling; education; and allied medical and public health disciplines.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UNICEF
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789280643633

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Machel Study 10-year Strategic Review by Anonim Pdf

The organisation of this report aims to heighten our understanding of the myriad ways in which armed conflict affects children - and how children regard their participation not only in war but in programmes aimed at preventing violence against them and in promoting their recovery and reintegration. The central message of this 10-year strategic review is that "war violates every right of the child". The report thus frames its findings within three categories: political and diplomatic actions and responsibilities; system-wide international policies, standards and architectures; and prevention and response.

Author : Gita Sen,Marina Durano
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780321615

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The Remaking of Social Contracts by Gita Sen,Marina Durano Pdf

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) argues that social contracts must be recreated if they are to fulfil the promise of human rights. In The Remaking of Social Contracts, leading thinkers and activists address a wide range of concerns - global economic governance, militarism, ecological tipping points, the nation state, movement-building, sexuality and reproduction, and religious fundamentalism. These themes are of wide-ranging importance for the survival and well-being of us all, and reflect the many dimensions and inter-connectedness of our lives. Using feminist lenses, the book puts forward a holistic and radical understanding of the synergies, tensions and contradictions between social movements and global, regional and local power structures and processes, and it points to other alternatives and possibilities for this fierce new world.

Author : Preti Taneja
Publisher : Minority Rights Group
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781904584872

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State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2009 by Preti Taneja Pdf

‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.’ Nelson Mandela Education for all is a goal that has been reaffirmed by states the world over many times in the last decade. It is meant to be achieved by 2015. But as this book clearly shows, a quality education is not reaching the world’s most vulnerable communities: minorities and indigenous peoples.In Central Africa, the great majority of indigenous Batwa and Baka have not had access even to primary education. In South Asia, Dalit girls are prevented from pursuing their education not just because of poverty, but through discrimination and sexual violence. In many countries in Europe, Roma children continue to be placed in segregated classes or in special schools for those with learning disabilities, just because of their ethnicity. In Latin America, millions of indigenous and African descendant children, instead of being in school, work in fields and plantations, in the mines, or at home.In a unique collaboration with UNICEF, Minority Rights Group International reports on what minority and indigenous children around the world face in their struggle to learn. State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2009 profiles the programmes that are being developed to help them – from better bilingual education to meeting the needs of nomadic populations – giving examples of what works and why. It describes efforts to overcome exclusion so that education is available, accessible, acceptable and adaptable for minorities and indigenous peoples, and shows how far there is still to go.It includes: - An analysis of available statistics that show that minorities and indigenous peoples are the most likely to suffer discrimination and exclusion in education worldwide. - First-hand accounts of the difficulties and challenges facing minority and indigenous children in every major world region. - Coverage of the key issues for promoting the right to education, including overcoming the double discrimination faced by minority and indigenous girls, the need to collect data by ethnicity, and the importance of bilingual or plurilingual education. - A unique statistical analysis and ranking of Peoples under Threat 2009. State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples is an invaluable reference for policy makers, academics, journalists and everyone who is interested in the conditions facing minorities and indigenous peoples around the world.