Children and Global Conflict

✍ Scribed by Kim Huynh, Bina D'Costa, and Katrina Lee-Koo

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 355
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction: why children matter toglobal conflict
1 Children and armed conflict: mapping the terrain
Introduction
The social construction of childhood
The construction of contemporary conflict zones
The experiences of children affected by armed conflict
Conclusion
2 Children and agency: caretakers, free-rangers and everyday life
Introduction
Caretakers: why children should be neither seen nor heard
Free-rangers: why children are autonomous
Children and the practice of everyday life
Conclusion
3 Children and IR: creating spaces forchildren
Introduction
The realist way of conflict
The liberal peace
The new wars
Critical approaches to IR theory
Conclusion
4 The rights of the child: political history, practices and protection
Introduction
Children's rights across cultural contexts
A history of children's rights: laying the moral foundations
Discursive practices of rights along the global north and south divide
The UNCRC
International law and the protection of children in armed conflict
Child civilians
‘An era of application’ and the UN resolutions
Conclusion
5 Child soldiers: causes, solutions andcultures
Introduction
The problem of child soldiers: the caretaker position
The problem of child soldiers: the free-ranger
position
An indirect approach to the problem of child soldiers
Child soldier cultures
Vietnam's child soldiers: fathers, giants and emperors
Vietnam's child soldiers: total war, new heroes and martyrs
Conclusion
6 Child forced migrants: bio-politics, autonomy and ambivalence
Introduction
The Age of Forced Migration
Children and the Age of Forced Migration
The view from down under: nonhuman children
The view from down under:
re-humanising children
Ambivalent conclusions
7 Children and peace building: propagating peace
Introduction
Searching for children in international peace building
The youth bulge thesis
Children and everyday peace
Conclusion
8 Children and justice: past crimes, healing and the future
Introduction
The evolution of juvenile justice systems
The child in international criminal justice
Truth and healing through restorative justice
Conclusion
9 Who speaks for children? Advocacy, activism and resistance
Introduction
Civil society
The transformative politics of advocacy: naming and shaming
The transformative politics of advocacy: CZOP
Children as activists
Children as political subjects
– babies as political objects62
Conclusion
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index