Research Handbook on Child Soldiers by Mark A. Drumbl (English) Hardcover Book

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Although child soldiers have received considerable media and policy attention, they remain poorly understood and inadequately protected. Promoting equity between generations, this Research Handbook will also appeal to individuals from many walks of life who are concerned with the rights of the child in times of conflict, peace and the in-between.

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Although child soldiers have received considerable media and policy attention, they remain poorly understood and inadequately protected. This Research Handbook addresses this troubling gap by offering a reflective and nuanced review of the complex issue of child soldiering. Containing original contributions from leading experts in many disciplines working across six continents, this comprehensive Handbook showcases diverse experiences and unique perspectives. The Handbook unpacks the life-cycle of youth and militarization: from recruitment, to demobilization, and return to civilian life. Challenging prevailing assumptions and conceptions, this uplifting Handbook focuses on the child soldier's capacity to cope with adversity. In so doing, it emphasizes the resilience, humanity and potential of children affected - rather than 'afflicted' - by armed conflict. The Research Handbook on Child Soldiers will be of interest to academics, practitioners and activists alike, with its extensive incorporation of cutting-edge fieldwork and the voices of the children themselves. Promoting equity between generations, this Handbook will also appeal to individuals from many walks of life who are concerned with the rights of the child in times of conflict, peace, and the in-between.

Author Biography

Edited by Mark A. Drumbl, Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University, US and Jastine C. Barrett, Independent Human Rights Consultant and Honorary Researcher, Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK

Table of Contents

Contents:PrefaceIntroductionMark A. Drumbl and Jastine C. BarrettPART I THE CONCEPT AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE CHILD SOLDIER1. In Search of the Lost Kingdom of ChildhoodMohamed Kamara2. Challenges for the Protection of Child Victims of Recruitment and Use in an Era of Complex Armed Conflicts: The Colombian CaseAna María Jiménez3. The Construction of Gender in Child Soldiering in the Special Court for Sierra LeoneValerie Oosterveld4. 'We Were Controlled, We Were Not Allowed to Express Our Sexuality, Our Intimacy Was Suppressed': Sexual Violence Experienced by BoysOmer Aijazi, Evelyn Amony and Erin Baines5. Getting Tambo Out of Limbo: Exploring Alternative Legal Frameworks that are More Sensitive to the Agency of Children and Young People in Armed ConflictKarl Hanson and Christelle Molima6. This is Belonging: Children and British Military RecruitmentRhys CrilleyPART II CONDUCT: AGENCY, CAPACITY AND RESILIENCE7. Child Soldiers in Historical and Comparative Perspective: Creating a Space for Data-Driven AnalysisDavid M. Rosen8. The Voiceless Child Soldiers of AfghanistanAnicée Van Engeland9. Weaponizing the Weak: The Role of Children in Terrorist GroupsMia Bloom10. Retracing the Journey of Child Soldiers and Looking for the Path to Return Them Home: A Report from Southern Philippines David N. Almarez, Ajree D. Malawani, Sittie Akima A. Ali, Princess Mae S. Chua and Primitivo C. Ragandang III11. Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence within Armed Groups - A Case Study of Northern UgandaMyriam Denov12. Social Reintegration Following Armed Conflict in Northern Uganda: How Former Child Soldier Young Mothers Use Symbolic ToolsFiona Shanahan and Angela VealePART III ENCOUNTERS WITH THE LAW13. The Regional African Legal Framework on Children: A Template for More Robust Action on Children and Armed Conflict?Godfrey Odongo14. Minors and Miners: Accountability Beyond Child Soldiering in the Democratic Republic of CongoSharanjeet Parmar and Yann Lebrat15. Crimes Committed by Child Soldiers: An Argument for CoherenceNikila Kaushik and Steven Freeland16. Child Soldiers in International Courtrooms: Unqualified Perpetrators, Erratic Witnesses and Irreparable Victims?Barbora Holá and Thijs B. Bouwknegt17. Dominic Ongwen on Trial: Problematizing Definitional Boundaries and Exploring the Possibilities of SocializationCarse Ramos18. Child Soldiers and Asylum – Duality or Dilemma?Joseph RikhofPART IV AFTERWORLD(S)/AFTERWARDS: TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND BEYOND19. Navigating the Mystical: Child Soldiers and Reintegration Rituals in Northern UgandaJastine C. Barrett20. Child Agency and Resistance to Discourses within the Paris Principles in Rehabilitation and Reintegration Processes of Former Child Soldiers in Northern UgandaGrace Akello21. Children Associated with Boko Haram: Disassociation, Protection, Accountability and ReintegrationStuart Casey-Maslen22. Do No Harm: How Reintegration Programmes for Former Child Soldiers Can Cause Unintended HarmMichael G. Wessells23. How to Find the 'Hidden' Girl Soldier? Two Sets of Suggestions Arising from LiberiaLeena VastapuuEpilogueNesam McMillanIndex

Review

'The Research Handbook on Child Soldiers is well balanced, and is less on abstractions and philosophizing, and more on offering erudite principle based solutions in respect of our efforts to conceptualise and understand child soldiers across disciplinary and professional divides. True to form, it also charts the way forward as the international community grapples with the ever changing nature of conflict. This book is not so much an idea whose time has come as it is an idea whose time is long overdue in coming.'--Benyam Mezmur, University of the Western Cape, South Africa'For this Research Handbook, Mark Drumbl and Jastine Barrett have assembled an array of scholars, drawn from six continents, and expert in multiple fields of law, humanities, and social sciences. Their writings deploy methodologies as varied as empirical study and doctrinal analysis in order to examine situations of armed conflict and other systemic violence, across a temporal spectrum of past, present, and future. Together, these contributions place this exciting volume at the vanguard of scholarship on child soldiers.'--Diane Marie Amann, University of Georgia, School of Law, US'This Research Handbook of vivid research on child soldiers memorably exposes how some youth engaged in armed conflicts forget they are still children. Contributors from six continents bring rich expertise in law, sociology, ethnography, social work, psychology, political science, criminology, medical anthropology, and literary analysis to the cultural and political contexts for recruiting minors by armed groups and by national military organizations. Beyond dominant images of child soldiers as either merely passive victims or as violent terrors, the authors point toward legal and cultural reforms with the further caution against doing further harm.' --Martha Minow, Harvard University, US

Review Quote

'This Research Handbook of vivid research on child soldiers memorably exposes how some youth engaged in armed conflicts forget they are still children. Contributors bring rich expertise in law, sociology, ethnography, social work, psychology, political science, criminology, medical anthropology, and literary analysis to the cultural and political contexts for recruiting minors by armed groups and by national military organizations. Beyond dominant images of child soldiers as either merely passive victims or as violent terrors, the authors point toward legal and cultural reforms while cautioning against doing further harm.'

Details ISBN1788114477 Pages 576 Language English Year 2019 ISBN-10 1788114477 ISBN-13 9781788114479 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2019-08-30 DEWEY 355.0083 Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Series Research Handbooks in International Law series Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Cheltenham Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2019-08-30 NZ Release Date 2019-08-30 UK Release Date 2019-08-30 Author Jastine C. Barrett Edited by Jastine C. Barrett Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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