Children and the Responsibility to Protect

Bina D'Costa is Associate Professor and Senior Fellow at the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University. She has been leading the migration research program at the UNICEF Office of Research–Innocenti (2016-2018). Her research interests span migration, children and conflict, gender, war crimes and justice.Luke Glanville, Ph.D. (2010), is a Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University. He is the author of Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect: A New History (University of Chicago Press, 2014).

• Contents List of ContributorsChildren and R2P: An IntroductionLuke GlanvilleTwo Agendas: R2P and Children and Armed Conflict‘Children Heard, Half-Heard?’: A Practitioners’ Look for Children in the Responsibility to Protect and Normative Agendas on Protection in Armed ConflictJeremy Shusterman and Michelle Godwin‘The Intolerable Impact of Armed Conflict on Children’: The United Nations Security Council and the Protection of Children in Armed ConflictKatrina Lee-KooR2P and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities: A Child-Centric ApproachCecilia JacobThe Politics of Norm Glocalisation: Limits in Applying R2P to Protecting ChildrenJochen Prantl and Ryoko NakanoRepresenting ChildrenResponsibility to Protect the Future: Children on the Move and the Politics of BecomingJana Tabak and Letícia CarvalhoR2P and the Novel: The Trope of the Abandoned Refugee Child in Stella Leventoyannis Harvey’s The Brink of FreedomErin Goheen GlanvilleUltimate Tests: Children, Rights, and the Politics of ProtectionJ. Marshall BeierCase StudiesChildren on the Front Lines: Responsibility to Protect in the Israeli/Palestinian ConflictTimea SpitkaPost-War Stigma, Violence and ‘Kony Children’: The Responsibility to Protect Children Born in Lord’s Resistance Army Captivity in Northern UgandaMyriam Denov and Atim Angela LakorPrevent to Protect: Early Warning, Child Soldiers, and the Case of SyriaDustin Johnson, Shelly Whitman and Hannah Sparwasser SorokaConclusionOf Responsibilities, Protection, and Rights: Children’s Lives in Conflict ZonesBina D’CostaBibliography