Child Perpetrators on Trial

Jastine C. Barrett is a UK-qualified lawyer and independent human rights consultant. She is currently an Honorary Researcher at Kent Law School, the University of Kent. Barrett completed her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, and also holds an LL.M. in International Law and International Relations and a B.A. (Hons) in Languages. She has served as Editor and Managing Editor for the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law and on the management committee of the 'UK's Solicitors'.

• 1. Introduction; 2. International standards on child perpetrators of atrocities; 3. Putting international standards into practice; 4. Rwanda: setting the context; 5. Rwanda's responses, in law, policy and practice, to child génocidaires; 6. International actors and the Rwandan child génocidaire; 7. UNICEF Rwanda's policy and advocacy: a strategic approach; 8. Evaluating UNICEF Rwanda's approach: a case of principled pragmatism?; 9. Child perpetrators and child rights: Rwanda and beyond.

'Child Perpetrators on Trial: Insights from Post-Genocide Rwanda thoroughly and comprehensively analyzes the various actors working in the juvenile justice system in post-genocide Rwanda and how child perpetrators of genocidal acts progressed through this justice system … With these intriguing speculations, Barrett leaves readers eager to hear more.' Elizabeth D. Wiseman, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics