Childhood, Human Rights and Adversity: The Case of Children and Military Conflict

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• 作者：Michael Wyness
• 刊名：Children & Society
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：30
• 期：5
• 页码：345-355
• 全文大小：88K
• ISSN：1099-0860

文摘

The Convention on the rights of the Child focuses global attention on those children living in adverse situations crystallising a global commitment to protecting children. Nevertheless, beyond these commitments to children, researchers have questioned whether the rights agenda captures the diversity of children's lives globally. Does the Convention connect with the lifeworlds of children playing formative roles? Drawing on critical research on children's rights, I address this question through analysing the roles that children play in military conflict. I explore a human rights framework, which highlights the agency of child soldiers focusing on their material, social and political capacities.