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Children and Violence

Agency, Experience, and Representation in and beyond Armed Conflict

Christelle Molima Bameka Jastine C. Barrett Mohamed Kamara Karl Hanson

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English
Routledge
14 March 2025
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.’

Harnessing expert contributions from over a dozen countries, the book examines the relationship between children and violence, with a focus on children ensnared in military conflict, embroiled in criminal gangs, and enmeshed in political activism. It analyses how children join fights, how they fight, and what happens to them after fighting officially ends. It addresses cutting- edge issues such as cyberwars, self-defence, intergenerational trauma, gender fluidity, racism and state surveillance. Throughout, the book underscores the need to respect the agency and dignity of children and youth, to build cultures of juvenile rights, and to think critically of the place of the child amid global power politics and decolonisation. Through accessible writing, and the provision of considerable new data, this book supports advocacy work and will enrich teaching and spark further academic research.

This book will be of great interest to students of International Law, Human Rights, Childhood Studies, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Post- Conflict Studies, and Security Studies.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   660g
ISBN:   9781032710716
ISBN 10:   1032710713
Pages:   250
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Christelle Molima Bameka is Scientific Coordinator of the Law and Society Initiative of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). She is the author of Enfants soldats et reinsertion socio- communautaire. Questions de responsabilité pénale en droit international et national congolais (2022). Jastine C. Barrett is an independent human rights consultant, international lawyer, and academic based in the United Kingdom. She is the author of Child Perpetrators on Trial: Insights from Post- Genocide Rwanda (2019) and co- editor of the Research Handbook on Child Soldiers (with Mark A. Drumbl, 2019). Mohamed Kamara is Professor of French and Africana Studies and chair of the Romance Languages department at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. He is the author of When Mosquitoes Come Marching In: A Play in Spectacles (2021) and Colonial Legacies in Francophone African Literature: The School and the Invention of the Bourgeoisie (2023). Karl Hanson is Director of the Centre for Children’s Rights Studies and Full Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Mark A. Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor at Washington and Lee University, School of Law, where he also serves as Director of the University’s Transnational Law Institute. He is the author of Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law (2007), Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy (2012), and Informers Up Close: Stories from Communist Prague (2024, with Barbora Holá); and co- editor (with Jastine Barrett) of the Research Handbook on Child Soldiers (2019) and of Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions (2024, with Caroline Fournet).

Reviews for Children and Violence: Agency, Experience, and Representation in and beyond Armed Conflict

‘I highly recommend this important volume, which examines how children are actors in different kinds of fights and struggles. Interconnecting areas of violence that are often fragmented and bringing forward voices from diverse countries, it sheds new light on children’s agency and ability to navigate and shape complex environments.’ Michael Wessells, Professor Emeritus, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Columbia University, USA ‘How do children fight? That is, how do young people experience concerted violence, whether it is called armed conflict, cartel criminality, cyberwar, or something else? Seeking answers through multidisciplinary research by authors from around the globe, this rich collection opens paths for an empirically grounded, fully inclusive child rights practice.’ Diane Marie Amann, Regents’ Professor of International Law, Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law, and Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center, University of Georgia School of Law, USA ‘This multi-disciplinary, multi-faceted, and multi-regional volume is a welcome contribution to scholarship on child-related violence. It offers important insights on violence in various forms and contexts, ranging from armed conflict, cyber warfare, and trafficking to economic, gendered, and racialized violence, among others. Taken as a whole, the chapters in this edited collection enrich, reframe, and expand debates on the relationship between childhood and violence.’ Hedi Viterbo, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Law Founding Director of the Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN), Queen Mary University of London, UK


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