Chldr In Conflict

Author : Myriam Denov,Bree Akesson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231539678

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Children Affected by Armed Conflict by Myriam Denov,Bree Akesson Pdf

Societal turbulence, state collapse, religious and ethnic conflict, poverty, hunger, and social exclusion all underlie children's involvement in armed conflict. Drawing from empirical studies in eleven conflict-ridden countries, including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Colombia, Uganda, Palestine, Somalia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, and South Sudan, Children Affected by Armed Conflict crosses cultures and contexts to capture a range of perspectives on the realities of armed conflict and its aftermath for children. Children Affected by Armed Conflict upends traditional views by emphasizing the experience of girls as well as boys, the unique social and contextual backgrounds of war-affected children, and the resilience and agency such children often display. Including children who are victims of, participants in, and witnesses to armed conflict in their analyses, the contributors to this volume highlight innovative methodologies that directly involve war-affected children in the research process. This validates the perspectives of children and ensures more effective outcomes in postwar reintegration and recovery. Deficits-based models do not account for the realities many war-affected children face. The alternative approaches presented in this edited collection—which acknowledge the realities of both trauma and resilience—aim to generate more effective policies and intervention strategies in the face of a growing global public health crisis.

Author : Jo Boyden,Joanna de Berry
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1845450345

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Children and Youth on the Front Line by Jo Boyden,Joanna de Berry Pdf

This series reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the field and includes within its scope international law, anthropology, medicine, geopolitics, social psychology and economics.

Author : Karen Mundy,Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807771402

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Educating Children in Conflict Zones by Karen Mundy,Sarah Dryden-Peterson Pdf

Inspired by the work of the late Dr. Jacqueline Kirk, this book takes a penetrating look at the challenges of delivering quality education to the approximately 39 million out-of-school children around the world who live in situations affected by violent conflict. With chapters by leading researchers on education in war and other conflict zones, the volume provides a comprehensive and critical overview of the links between conflict and children's access to education, as well as a review of the policies and approaches taken by those offering international assistance in this area. Empirical case studies drawn from diverse contextsAfghanistan, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and Uganda (among others)offer readers a deeper understanding of the educational needs of these children and the practical challenges to meeting these needs.

Author : J. Marshall Beier,Jana Tabak
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030747886

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Childhoods in Peace and Conflict by J. Marshall Beier,Jana Tabak Pdf

This edited book offers a collection of highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods in peace and conflict across political time and space. Organized according to three broad themes (ontologies, pedagogies, and contingencies), each chapter explores the complexities of a particular case study, providing new insights into the ways children’s lives figure as terrains of engagement, contestation, ambivalence, resistance, and reproduction of militarisms. The first three chapters challenge dominant ontologies that prefigure childhood in particular ways. These include who counts as a child worthy of protection, questions of voice and participation, and the diminution of agency. The chapters in the second section bring to view everyday pedagogies whereby myriad knowledges, performances, practices, and competencies may function to militarize children’s lives, including in but not limited to advanced (post)industrial societies of the global North. The third and final section includes investigations that foreground questions of responsibility to children. Here, contributors assess, among other things, resilience-building, the exigencies of protection, and the ethics of military recruitment practices targeting children.

Author : Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Children
ISBN : 1780683464

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The Child's Interests in Conflict by Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg Pdf

The Child's Interests in Conflict addresses one of the most pressing issues of any multicultural society, namely the conflicting demands on children from minority groups or children born to parents of different cultural or faith backgrounds. What a family may consider to be in the child's best interest and welfare in court decisions may not be shared by society at large. Each can be guided by faith, culture, and tradition. Society can view the child as being exposed to a significant harm or to risk of harm if certain traditions are followed, while, in contrast, parents can believe that their child is harmed or is in harm's way if that tradition is not respected. Focusing on such circumstances in Europe, the contributions in this book - all written by internationally leading experts and with a interdisciplinary element - address situations of conflict regarding: a child's upbringing and education in general * the shaping of a child's cultural or faith-based identity * underage marriages * the circumcision of boys * the role of faith and culture in society's placements of children outside the care of their family * the role of faith in cross-border child abduction and disputes over parental responsibilities. Attention is paid to the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and to less well-known national case law, as well as to recent national legislation, all of which show not only the complexity of the issues discussed, but also the differing ways multicultural challenges are dealt with. The book strives to answer, inter alia, how legal systems should navigate between the competing claims and conflicting interests without forgetting the main person to be protected, namely the child; and how the scope of tolerance, recognition, and autonomy should be defined. (Series: European Family Law - Vol. 41) Subject: European Law, Human Rights Law, Family Law, Children's Law, Socio-Legal Studies]

Author : Jenny Reynolds,Catherine Houlston,Lester Coleman,Gordon Harold
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447315810

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Parental Conflict by Jenny Reynolds,Catherine Houlston,Lester Coleman,Gordon Harold Pdf

Researchers increasingly recognize the importance of early family experiences on children and the impact that inter-parental conflict has on child development. This book reviews recent research in order to show how children who experience high levels of inter-parental conflict are put at both an immediate psychological and physical risk and a longer-developing risk of recapitulating such behaviors. The authors examine topics such as the differences between destructive and constructive inter-parental conflict on child development, why some children are more adversely affected than others, and how conflict affects child physiology. Ultimately they provide suggestions for improving the futures of children who are experiencing challenging family environments today.

Author : E. Mark Cummings,Patrick T. Davies
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462503292

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Marital Conflict and Children by E. Mark Cummings,Patrick T. Davies Pdf

From leading researchers, this book presents important advances in understanding how growing up in a discordant family affects child adjustment, the factors that make certain children more vulnerable than others, and what can be done to help. It is a state-of-the-science follow-up to the authors' seminal earlier work, Children and Marital Conflict: The Impact of Family Dispute and Resolution. The volume presents a new conceptual framework that draws on current knowledge about family processes; parenting; attachment; and children's emotional, physiological, cognitive, and behavioral development. Innovative research methods are explained and promising directions for clinical practice with children and families are discussed.

Author : Helen Brocklehurst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351873048

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Who's Afraid of Children? by Helen Brocklehurst Pdf

Brocklehurst's impressive work breaks new ground in normative international political theory. It develops a new theoretical framework which exposes how children are present in international relations and security practices using an empirical and comparative assessment of the role of children and youth in a range of conflicts including Nazi Germany, Mozambique, South Africa, Northern Ireland, the Cold War and the British Empire. The author argues powerfully that concepts of children are partial and 'contained' through their construction as non-political. Global in scope, this book is a timely and important contribution given the growing visibility of children in international relations evident after September 11. The political and ethical question at the heart of this book is: will international relations dare to catch up?

Author : Morris Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Aggressiveness
ISBN : OCLC:1029284181

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Children in Conflict by Morris Fraser Pdf

Author : R. Charli Carpenter
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781565492370

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Born of War by R. Charli Carpenter Pdf

'Born of War' examines the human rights of children born of wartime rape and sexual exploitation in worldwide conflict zones. Detailing the impacts of armed conflict on these children's survival, protection and membership rights, the text suggests that these children constitute a particularly vulnerable category in conflict zones.

Author : Jonathan Todres,Shani M. King
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 797 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190097622

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The Oxford Handbook of Children's Rights Law by Jonathan Todres,Shani M. King Pdf

Children's rights law is a relatively young but rapidly developing discipline. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, the field's core legal instrument, is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. Yet, like children themselves, children's rights are often relegated to the margins in mainstream legal, political, and other discourses, despite their application to approximately one-third of the world's population and every human being's first stages of life. Now thirty years old, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) signalled a definitive shift in the way that children are viewed and understood--from passive objects subsumed within the family to full human beings with a distinct set of rights. Although the CRC and other children's rights law have spurred positive changes in law, policies, and attitudes toward children in numerous countries, implementation remains a work in progress. We have reached a state in the evolution of children's rights in which we need more critical evaluation and assessment of the CRC and the large body of children's rights law and policy that this treaty has inspired. We have moved from conceptualizing and adopting legislation to focusing on implementation and making the content of children's rights meaningful in the lives of all children. This book provides a critical evaluation and assessment of children's rights law, including the CRC. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners from around the world, it aims to elucidate the content of children's rights law, explore the complexities of implementation, and identify critical challenges and opportunities for children's rights law.

Author : Ilene Cohn,Guy S. Goodwin-Gill,Institut Henry-Dunant
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198259328

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Child Soldiers by Ilene Cohn,Guy S. Goodwin-Gill,Institut Henry-Dunant Pdf

1.3 Who is the Child?

Author : John Howard Grych,Frank D. Fincham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0521651425

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Interparental Conflict and Child Development by John Howard Grych,Frank D. Fincham Pdf

Interparental Conflict and Child Development provides an in-depth analysis of the rapidly expanding body of research on the impact of interparental conflict on children. Emphasizing developmental and family systems perspectives, it investigates a range of important issues, including the processes by which exposure to conflict may lead to child maladjustment, the role of gender and ethnicity in understanding the effects of conflict, the influence of conflict on parent-child, sibling, and peer relations, family violence, and interparental conflict in divorced and step-families.

Author : Jason Hart
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1845455282

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Years of Conflict by Jason Hart Pdf

Recent years have witnessed a significant growth of interest in the consequences of political violence and displacement for the young. However, when speaking of "children" commentators have often taken the situation of those in early and middle childhood as representative of all young people under eighteen years of age. As a consequence, the specific situation of adolescents negotiating the processes of transition towards social adulthood amidst conditions of violence and displacement is commonly overlooked. Years of Conflict provides a much-needed corrective. Drawing upon perspectives from anthropology, psychology, and media studies as well as the insights of those involved in programmatic interventions, it describes and analyses the experiences of older children facing the challenges of daily life in settings of conflict, post-conflict and refuge. Several authors also reflect upon methodological issues in pursuing research with young people in such settings. The accounts span the globe, taking in Liberia, Afghanistan, South Africa, Peru, Jordan, UK/Western Europe, Eastern Africa, Iran, USA, and Colombia. This book will be invaluable to those seeking a fuller understanding of conflict and displacement and its effects upon adolescents. It will also be welcomed by practitioners concerned to develop more effective ways of providing support to this group.

Author : Shaheed Fatima QC
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509923045

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Protecting Children in Armed Conflict by Shaheed Fatima QC Pdf

In armed conflicts around the world, children are being killed, raped, abducted and recruited to fight at a shocking scale. In light of this continuing general failure to protect children in conflict, it is questionable whether existing international law norms and institutions provide sufficient protection and accountability. Consideration needs to be given to whether international law can do more – practically and effectively – when moral lines are crossed. That is the purpose of this book. It reviews the position of children in armed conflict by reference to the 'six grave violations' as identified by the UN Security Council. It analyses the protection offered by international humanitarian law, international criminal law and international human rights law, and also assesses the related adjudicative accountability mechanisms. The analysis concludes with a number of recommendations and proposals for reform, with a view to enhancing accountability and deterring future violations. The book has been written by a team of lawyers, headed by Shaheed Fatima QC, and has drawn on the input of an expert advisory panel comprising leading academics, policy-makers and activists. It has been written as part of the Inquiry on Protecting Children in Conflict. The Inquiry has been sponsored by Save the Children and Theirworld and chaired by former UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.