Research Handbook on Child Soldiers

Edited by Mark A. Drumbl, Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University, US and Jastine C. Barrett, Independent Human Rights Consultant and Honorary Researcher, Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK

• Contents:PrefaceIntroductionMark A. Drumbl and Jastine C. BarrettPART I THE CONCEPT AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE CHILD SOLDIER1. In Search of the Lost Kingdom of Childhood Mohamed Kamara2. Challenges for the Protection of Child Victims of Recruitment and Use in an Era of Complex Armed Conflicts: The Colombian CaseAna María Jiménez3. The Construction of Gender in Child Soldiering in the Special Court for Sierra LeoneValerie Oosterveld4. ‘We Were Controlled, We Were Not Allowed to Express Our Sexuality, Our Intimacy Was Suppressed’: Sexual Violence Experienced by BoysOmer Aijazi, Evelyn Amony and Erin Baines5. Getting Tambo Out of Limbo: Exploring Alternative Legal Frameworks that are More Sensitive to the Agency of Children and Young People in Armed ConflictKarl Hanson and Christelle Molima6. This is Belonging: Children and British Military RecruitmentRhys CrilleyPART II CONDUCT: AGENCY, CAPACITY AND RESILIENCE7. Child Soldiers in Historical and Comparative Perspective: Creating a Space for Data-Driven AnalysisDavid M. Rosen8. The Voiceless Child Soldiers of AfghanistanAnicée Van Engeland9. Weaponizing the Weak: The Role of Children in Terrorist GroupsMia Bloom10. Retracing the Journey of Child Soldiers and Looking for the Path to Return Them Home: A Report from Southern Philippines David N. Almarez, Ajree D. Malawani, Sittie Akima A. Ali, Princess Mae S. Chua and Primitivo C. Ragandang III11. Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence within Armed Groups - A Case Study of Northern UgandaMyriam Denov12. Social Reintegration Following Armed Conflict in Northern Uganda: How Former Child Soldier Young Mothers Use Symbolic ToolsFiona Shanahan and Angela VealePART III ENCOUNTERS WITH THE LAW13. The Regional African Legal Framework on Children: A Template for More Robust Action on Children and Armed Conflict?Godfrey Odongo14. Minors and Miners: Accountability Beyond Child Soldiering in the Democratic Republic of CongoSharanjeet Parmar and Yann Lebrat15. Crimes Committed by Child Soldiers: An Argument for CoherenceNikila Kaushik and Steven Freeland16. Child Soldiers in International Courtrooms: Unqualified Perpetrators, Erratic Witnesses and Irreparable Victims?Barbora Holá and Thijs B. Bouwknegt17. Dominic Ongwen on Trial: Problematizing Definitional Boundaries and Exploring the Possibilities of SocializationCarse Ramos18. Child Soldiers and Asylum – Duality or Dilemma?Joseph RikhofPART IV AFTERWORLD(S)/AFTERWARDS: TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND BEYOND19. Navigating the Mystical: Child Soldiers and Reintegration Rituals in Northern UgandaJastine C. Barrett20. Child Agency and Resistance to Discourses within the Paris Principles in Rehabilitation and Reintegration Processes of Former Child Soldiers in Northern UgandaGrace Akello21. Children Associated with Boko Haram: Disassociation, Protection, Accountability and ReintegrationStuart Casey-Maslen22. Do No Harm: How Reintegration Programmes for Former Child Soldiers Can Cause Unintended HarmMichael G. Wessells23. How to Find the ‘Hidden’ Girl Soldier? Two Sets of Suggestions Arising from LiberiaLeena VastapuuEpilogue Nesam McMillanIndex

'The Research Handbook on Child Soldiers is well balanced, and is less on abstractions and philosophizing, and more on offering erudite principle based solutions in respect of our efforts to conceptualise and understand child soldiers across disciplinary and professional divides. True to form, it also charts the way forward as the international community grapples with the ever changing nature of conflict. This book is not so much an idea whose time has come as it is an idea whose time is long overdue in coming.'--Benyam Mezmur, University of the Western Cape, South Africa