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Children and violence : politics of conflict in South Asia /
"Explores the conceptualization of childhood in South Asia and comments on how discussions and debates have only recently shifted from a language of welfare to substantive protection of children's rights in the region"--
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: "turtles can fly" : vicarious terror and the child in South Asia / Bina D'Costa
- Shaping childhood in South Asia
- Children and civil society in south asia : subjects, participants, and political agents / Duncan McDuie-Ra
- "We will work harder to be our own boss" : children, vulnerability and structural violence / Elora Halim Chowdhury
- The kite runner : children, violence, and the ethnic imaginary in Afghanistan / Syed Sami Raza
- Conflict and violent peace
- Migration, mobilisation and memory : the Sri Lankan civil war in the lives of Tamil youth / Amarnath Amarasingam and Tanuja Thurairajah
- Politics of the orphans of war : 72 children's journey from the Chittagong hill tracts of Bangladesh to the suburbs of France / Kabita Chakma and Glen Hill
- Besieged childhood and broken dreams : failed promises of the state and Maoist movement in India / Swati Parashar
- Impacts of terrorism on children in Pakistan : a case study of displaced children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa / Zahid Shahab Ahmed
- Rights, needs and protections
- Children affected by political violence in India : human rights, politics and protection / Cecilia Jacobs
- Rethinking rights and needs : the everyday life of refugee children in the borderland / Kazi Fahmida Farzana
- Pinning down a paper tiger : some practice observations on the monitoring and reporting mechanism in Nepal and Asian contexts / Anita Knudsen and Michelle Godwin
- Reflections from human rights advocates in the region
- Being young in a time of conflict : Kashmiri youth and children : a reflection / Parvez Imroz
- The killing of youths in Sri Lanka : historical wrongs and the failure of the state / Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena
- The impact of war and violence on young minds / Azra Nafees Yousafzai
- Bibliography
- Index.