Grace Akallo And The Pursuit Of Justice For Child Soldiers

Author : Kem Knapp Sawyer
Publisher : Morgan Reynolds Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781599354569
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grace Akallo and the Pursuit of Justice for Child Soldiers written by Kem Knapp Sawyer and published by Morgan Reynolds Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Faith J. H. McDonnell
Publisher : Chosen Books
ISBN 13 : 1441217010
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girl Soldier written by Faith J. H. McDonnell and published by Chosen Books. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several decades a brutal army of rebels has been raiding villages in northern Uganda, kidnapping children and turning them into soldiers or wives of commanders. More than 30,000 children have been abducted over the last twenty years and forced to commit unspeakable crimes. Grace Akallo was one of these. Her story, which is the story of many Ugandan children, recounts her terrifying experience. This unforgettable book--with historical background and insights from Faith McDonnell, one of the clearest voices in the church today calling for freedom and justice--will inspire readers around the world to take notice, pray, and work to end this tragedy.

Author : Joya Uraizee
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628954108
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing That Breaks Stones written by Joya Uraizee and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing That Breaks Stones: African Child Soldier Narratives is a critical examination of six memoirs and six novels written by and about young adults from Africa who were once child soldiers. It analyzes not only how such narratives document the human rights violations experienced by these former child soldiers but also how they connect and disconnect from their readers in the global public sphere. It draws on existing literary scholarship about novels and memoirs as well as on the fieldwork conducted by social scientists about African children in combat situations. Writing That Breaks Stones groups the twelve narratives into categories and analyzes each segment, comparing individually written memoirs with those written collaboratively, and novels whose narratives are fragmented with those that depict surreal landscapes of misery. It concludes that the memoirs focus on a lone individual’s struggles in a hostile environment, and use repetition, logical contradictions, narrative breaks, and reversals of binaries in order to tell their stories. By contrast, the novels use narrative ambiguity, circularity, fragmentation, and notions of dystopia in ways that call attention to the child soldiers’ communities and environments. All twelve narratives depict the child soldier’s agency and culpability somewhat ambiguously, effectively reflecting the ethical dilemmas of African children in combat.

Author : Kamaldeep Bhui
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198845707
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terrorism, Violent Radicalisation and Mental Health written by Kamaldeep Bhui and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorism, Violent Radicalization and Mental Health brings together distinct disciplinary and ideological narratives on the political, social, economic, and cultural aspects of radicalisation and terrorism today.

Author : Jonathan Matusitz
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031165829
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Child Terrorism to Peace Activism written by Jonathan Matusitz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the reasons for which children join terrorist movements and how they eventually become peace activists fighting the very crimes that they once committed. The transformation of child terrorists into peace activists has received scant attention from academics and practitioners alike. Particular focus is placed on child jihadism, child terrorism in Africa and Latin America, child separatist terrorism, and White child supremacism. These five groups of child terrorists represent about 80% of the problem across the world. The text serves as a primer for anti-terrorism and peace activism for global social change. It includes original, applied research and features personal accounts from former child terrorists who became peace activists themselves. One of the nine chapters provides an in-depth thematic analysis of the lives of 24 subjects (from all five aforementioned groups). The analysis produced four main themes that encapsulate the time and effort that it takes to become a peace activist today: metamorphosis, terrorist behavior, disillusionment, and anti-terrorist behavior. The book ends with multiple solutions from the perspective of social work, including the reintegration of former child terrorists into society. From Child Terrorism to Peace Activism is a resource of deep and broad appeal. The text is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate and Master’s students in political science, military studies, international relations, international law, and peace and conflict studies. It can be pertinent reading for students and instructors in international social work contemplating social work-related solutions to rehabilitate former child terrorists and child soldiers into society through peace activism, anti-terrorist endeavors, and other socio-psychological methods that will produce social change. The text also would appeal to faculty and students in childhood studies with an interest in child terrorism, child development, and child trauma and resilience. Given the essentials, depth, and possibilities that the book offers, it is a useful resource for audiences within counterterrorism institutes, national security agencies, and academic think-tanks. Information on motives, strategies, radicalization processes, and recruitment methods used by terrorist organizations as well as their effects on various audiences will draw readers from law enforcement agencies and institutions.

Author : Solimar Otero
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580463304
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrating War and Peace in Africa written by Solimar Otero and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrating War and Peace in Africa interrogates conventional representations of Africa and African culture -- mainly in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- with an emphasis on portrayals of conflict and peace. While Africa has experienced political and social turbulence throughout its history, more recent conflicts seem to reinforce the myth of barbarism across the continent: in Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Chad, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. The essays in this volume address reductive and stereotypical assumptions of postcolonial violence as "tribal" in nature, and offer instead various perspectives -- across disciplinary boundaries -- that foster a less fetishized, more contextualized understanding of African war, peace, and memory. Through their geographical, historical, and cultural scope and diversity, the chapters in Narrating War and Peace in Africa aim to challenge negative stereotypes that abound in relation to Africa in general and to its wars and conflicts in particular, encouraging a shift to more balanced and nuanced representations of the continent and its political and social climates. Contributors: Ann Albuyeh, Zermarie Deacon, Alicia C. Decker, Aména Moïnfar, Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi, Sabrina Parent, Susan Rasmussen, Michael Sharp, Cheryl Sterling, Hetty ter Haar, Melissa Tully, Pamela Wadende, Metasebia Woldemariam, Jonathan Zilberg. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Hetty ter Haar is an independent researcher in England.

Author : Mark A. Drumbl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199592659
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy written by Mark A. Drumbl and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child soldiers are generally perceived as faultless, passive victims. This ignores that the roles of child soldiers vary, from innocent abductee to wilful perpetrator. This book argues that child soldiers should be judged on their actions and that treating them like a homogenous group prevents them from taking responsibility for their acts.

Author : J.L. Powers
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1743431309
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amina: Through My Eyes written by J.L. Powers and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving story of one child's life in a conflict zone, in Mogadishu, Somalia. Amina lives on the edges of Mogadishu. Her family's house has been damaged in Somalia's long civil war, but they continue to live there, reluctant to leave their home. Amina's world is shattered when government forces come to arrest her father because his art has been officially censored, deemed too political. Then rebel forces kidnap Amina's brother, forcing him to become a soldier in Somalia's brutal ongoing war. Although her mother and grandmother are still with her, Amina feels vulnerable and abandoned. Secretly, she begins to create her own artwork in the streets and the derelict buildings to give herself a sense of hope and to let out the burden of her heart. Her artwork explodes into Mogadishu's underground world, providing a voice for people all over the city who hope for a better, more secure future. 'This touching story brings home vividly the dangers of creating art that seeks to be true - and all the more so during a vicious civil war, interwoven with religious extremism. Thankfully, Amina's teenage curiosity and courage also signal hope.' - Beverley Naidoo, author of Carnegie Medal Winner The Other Side of Truth

Author : Kerry Kennedy
Publisher : Umbrage Editions
ISBN 13 : 1884167330
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speak Truth to Power written by Kerry Kennedy and published by Umbrage Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source material.

Author : CYBUS BYINGTON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A DICTIONARY THE CHOCTAW LANGUAGE written by CYBUS BYINGTON and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: