Children and Violence

Christelle Molima Bameka is the Scientific Coordination 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 UK. 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 of Child Soldiers (2019) and of Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions (2024, with Caroline Fournet).

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