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

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• VerfasserIn: Carpenter, Charli,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 4 illus.; 1 table

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 . Theorizing Child Rights in International Relations -- 2 . "Particularly Vulnerable": Children Born of Sexual Violence in Conflict and Postconflict Zones -- 3 . "Different Things Become Sexy Issues": The Politics of Issue Construction in Transnational Space -- 4 . "A Fresh Crop of Human Misery": Representations of War Babies in and Around Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1991-2005 -- 5 . "Protecting Children in War," Forgetting Children of War: Humanitarian Triage During the War in Ex-Yugoslavia 80 -- 6 . "Forced to Bear Children of the Enemy": Surfacing Gender and Submerging Child Rights in International Law -- 7. "These Children (Who Are Part of the Genocide), They Have No Problems": Th inking About Children of War and Rights in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina -- 8 . "A Very Complicated Issue": Agenda Setting and Agenda Vetting in Transnational Advocacy Networks -- 9. The Social Construction of Children's Human Rights -- Notes -- Appendix -- References -- Index