wessells children, armed conflict and peace

Ultimately, this article argues that re-visioning children’s relationship to armed conflict provides a strategy to better ensure children’s rights and reflects their relationship to peace. Soon, the peaceful protests were transformed into an armed conflict due to the. In this sense, the agenda is closed to exploring the ways in which children resist, adapt, shape, and survive conflict in ways that position them as agents of their own protection and – in some circumstances – agents of community resilience amidst conflict. Armed Conflicts Children, Education Syria and International community. It argues that this excludes a nuanced understanding of the lived experiences of children in conflict.

The article traces the ways that dominant conceptualisations of children as ‘innocent victims’ has animated an agenda that focuses primarily upon their victimisation that, in turn, reinforces the legitimacy of the protection ethic. Children with higher posttraumatic stress.

While the protection of children from violence in armed conflict is entirely appropriate, this article demonstrates that the Council’s singular focus upon protection goes beyond merely appropriate, and borders upon overbearing. Healing the trauma caused by war is essential for building a peaceful society after the end of the conflict. The United Nations Security Council’s Children and Armed Conflict agenda is animated by a protection ethic.

Wessells children, armed conflict and peace