Children and Violence

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'.

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