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Forgetting Children Born of War Charli Carpenter

Forgetting Children Born of War By Charli Carpenter

Forgetting Children Born of War by Charli Carpenter


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Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond by Charli Carpenter

Sexual violence and exploitation occur in many conflict zones, and the children born of such acts face discrimination, stigma, and infanticide. Yet the massive transnational network of organizations working to protect war-affected children has, for two decades, remained curiously silent on the needs of this vulnerable population. Focusing specifically on the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina, R. Charli Carpenter questions the framing of atrocity by human rights organizations and the limitations these narratives impose on their response. She finds that human rights groups set their agendas according to certain grievances-the claims of female rape victims or the complaints of aggrieved minorities, for example-and that these concerns can overshadow the needs of others. Incorporating her research into a host of other conflict zones, Carpenter shows that the social construction of rights claims is contingent upon the social construction of wrongs. According to Carpenter, this pathology prevents the full protection of children born of war.

Forgetting Children Born of War Reviews

An original work that has significantly contributed to scholarship. It is comprehensive in its scope and coverage, and diligent and conscientious in its research. It will serve as a standard scholarly reference and source of information and inspiration to academics, decision makers and politicians in this field today and for many years to come. -- Hilmi M. Zawati * ILAF Review Articles *

About Charli Carpenter

R. Charli Carpenter is assistant professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, specializing in international relations, gender and political violence, transnational advocacy networks, human rights, and the laws of war. She is the author of Innocent Women and Children: Gender, Norms, and the Protection of Civilians and editor of Born of War: Protecting Children of Sexual Violence Survivors in Conflict Zones. Her blog posts can be read at Duck Of Minerva, Current Intelligence, and Lawyers, Guns, and Money.

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GOR013677932
9780231151306
0231151306
Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond by Charli Carpenter
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Columbia University Press
2010-05-31
304
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