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Escaping Victimhood: Children, Youth and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

ed. by Albrecht Schnabel ; Anara Tabyshalieva

Buch

englisch

Schnabel, Albrecht (Ed.) DNB
Tabyshalieva, Anara (Ed.) DNB

United Nations Univ. Press [u.a.]

Tokyo

2013

258 p.

978-92-808-1211-4

peace
war
children
peacebuilding
youth

This publication draws on experiences from post-conflict environments in different parts of the world. The authors examine the proactive roles of girls and boys in promoting security for themselves and their families. The publication focuses on children's suffering and their specific vulnerabilities during and after a war. It also looks into the international legal frameworks created to protect and empower children and youth in post-conflict environments, and gives examples of initiatives to help young people escape victimhood and voicelessness. As the young post-war generation will become the next leaders, parents and teachers, ensuring children and youth's active role in post-conflict peacebuilding today could be among the most effective means of building sustainable peace tomorrow.

Contents:

Opportunities missed : sidelining children and youth in post-conflict recovery and reform efforts / Albrecht Schnabel and Anara Tabyshalieva -- The active role of children and young people in post-conflict peacebuilding / Claire O'Kane, Clare Feinstein and Annette Giertsen -- Children and youth in conflict and post-conflict societies : from plights of war to paths of peacebuilding / Kathleen Kostelny and Michael Wessells -- Angry young men in Timor-Leste : post-conflict peacebuilding and its malcontents / Henri Myrttinen -- Protection and participation of children in post-conflict peacebuilding : international law and evolving practice / Vesselin Popovski -- Children and security sector governance / David Nosworthy -- The resilience of children and youth during conflict and its contribution to post-conflict stability : the case of northern Uganda and night commuting / Azar Eskandarpour -- Do youth programmes contribute to post-conflict peacebuilding? : some reflections on existing practice / Valeria Izzi and Chetan Kumar -- Conflict is a preventable disease : recovering child soldiers teach the practice of peace / Deborah Davis -- Escaping and moving beyond victimhood : children and youth as peacebuilders / Anara Tabyshalieva and Albrecht Schnabel.

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