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- Addresses child soldiers’ participation in crimes under international law
- Provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of how different fora of transitional justice have dealt with child soldiers and their roles as perpetrators
- Develops a new approach to achieving accountability for child soldiers’ participation in crimes under international law
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Criminal Justice Series (ICJS, volume 14)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book deals with child soldiers’ involvement in crimes under international law. Child soldiers are often victims of grave human rights abuses, and yet, in some cases, they also participate actively in inflicting violence upon others. Nonetheless, the international discourse on child soldiers often tends to ignore the latter dimension of children’s involvement in armed conflict and instead focuses exclusively on their role as victims.
While it might seem as though the discourse is therefore beneficial for child soldiers as it protects them from blame and responsibility, it is important to realize that the so-called passive victim narrative entails various adverse consequences, which can hinder the successful reintegration of child soldiers into their families, communities and societies. This book aims to address this dilemma. First, the available options for dealing with child soldiers’ participationin crimes under international law, such as transitional justice and criminal justice, and their shortcomings are analyzed in depth. Subsequently a new approach is developed towards achieving accountability in a child-adequate way, which is called restorative transitional justice.
This book is in the first place aimed at researchers with an interest in child soldiers, children and armed conflict, as well as international criminal law, transitional justice, juvenile justice, restorative justice, children’s rights, and international human rights law. Secondly, professionals working on issues of transitional justice, juvenile justice, international criminal law, children’s rights, and the reintegration of child soldiers will also find the subject matter of great relevance to their practice.
Dr. Leonie Steinl, LL.M. (Columbia) is a Researcher and Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin.
Authors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Law, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Leonie Steinl
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Child Soldiers as Agents of War and Peace
Book Subtitle: A Restorative Transitional Justice Approach to Accountability for Crimes Under International Law
Authors: Leonie Steinl
Series Title: International Criminal Justice Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-201-9
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press The Hague
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-200-2Published: 01 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6265-201-9Published: 19 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2352-6718
Series E-ISSN: 2352-6726
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 421
Topics: International Criminal Law , Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Criminal Justice, Victimology