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New Thesis by Stewart, Beth W.
"In the aftermath of nearly three decades of conflict in northern Uganda, children born into the rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) experience social, economic, and political exclusion. Thousands were born to mothers and often fathers who were abducted by the LRA and forced to marry inside the rebel group."
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New Journal Entry ('The Journal of Modern History') by Raffael Scheck.
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"What are the special risks and needs of Children Born of War (CBOW)?
Time and place: Securing health care of hidden populations: The case of Children Born of War June 5, 2018 8:15 AM - 2:00 PM, Tøyen Hovedgård, Botanical Gardens, Oslo"
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"What Happens When the War Ends?
Does hatred just go away? My Child Lebensborn is a story-driven nurture game - a dark tamagotchi - letting you experience the fates of Children Born of War."
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Rohingya camps ready for spate of births.
"Agencies braced for spike in unwanted children who were conceived as a result of sexual violence by Myanmar soldiers and militiamen"
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"Forced to deliver babies for the Islamic State, she shared moments tender, cruel and grotesque"
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... to sexual abuse and isolation at camps, says Amnesty.
"BAGHDAD — In December, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared “complete” victory over Islamic State militants after Iraqi forces backed by U.S. advisers and air power clawed back major cities occupied by the extremists for years."
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Congratulations to Tatiana Sanchez Parra!
April 6 2018: Tatiana Sanchez Parra, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK, defended her PhD “Born of War in Colombia: Narratives of Unintelligibility, Contested Identities, and the Memories of Absence”. Her thesis addresses the production and reproduction of narratives about children born as a result of war-related sexual violence in Colombia and focuses on the social processes though which they have become part of realities of the armed conflict that are apprehended by the Colombian government, human rights organisations and transitional justice agencies, the media, and the communities.
External examiner and INIRC-CBOW network founder Professor Ingvill C. Mochmann, PhD candidate Tatiana Sanchez Parra, internal examiner Professor Nigel G. South, University of Essex
"These Children Saw Terrible Things"
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"The global authority on the recruitment and use of children by state armed forces and non-state armed groups. This global map visualises trends in the military exploitation of children according to three essential criteria: ratification of OPAC (the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict), minimum recruitment age, and use of children in hostilities. Click on any country to see full details of the national legal framework, policies and practices."
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... with the Kölner Universitätspreis für Forschung 2017.
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"In wars around the globe, thousands of children were front-line targets, used as human shields and recruited to fight this year on “a shocking scale,” Unicef said on Thursday. The United Nations agency warned against normalizing the brutality, a sentiment it has echoed in reports year after year."
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