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Children and Youth on the Front Line - Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement (Hardcover)
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Children and Youth on the Front Line - Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement (Hardcover)
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War leads not just to widespread death but also to extensive
displacement, overwhelming fear, and economic devastation. It
weakens social ties, threatens household survival and undermines
the family's capacity to care for its most vulnerable members.
Every year it kills and maims countless numbers of young people,
undermines thousands of others psychologically and deprives many of
the economic, educational, health and social opportunities which
most of us consider essential for children's effective growth and
well being. Based on detailed ethnographic description and on young
people's own accounts, this volume provides insights into
children's experiences as both survivors and perpetrators of
violence. It focuses on girls who have been exposed to sexual
exploitation and abuse, children who head households or are
separated from their families, displaced children and young former
combatants who are attempting to adjust to their changed
circumstances following the cessation of conflict. In this sense,
the volume bears witness to the grim effects of warfare and
displacement on the young. Nevertheless, despite the abundant
evidence of suffering, it maintains that children are not the
passive victims of conflict but engage actively with the conditions
of war, an outlook that challenges orthodox research perspectives
that rely heavily on medicalized notions of 'victim' and 'trauma.'
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