It’s about Finding a Way’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12191997 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helen Berents (0000-0003-1331-3308, The University of QueenslandAustralia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 361-384 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-05 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Children s Rights (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0927-5568 • E-ISSN: 1571-8182 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15718182-02202006 |
| OpenAlex | W2014333973 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 15 |
The multiple forms of violence associated with protracted conflict disproportionately affect young people. Literature on conflict-affected children often focuses on the need to provide stability and security through institutions such as schools but rarely considers how young people themselves see these sites as part of their everyday lives. The enduring, pervasive, and complex nature of Colombia’s conflict means many young Colombians face the challenges of poverty, persistent social exclusion, and violence. Such conditions are exacerbated in ‘informal’ barrio communities such as los Altos de Cazucá, just south of the capital Bogotá. Drawing on field research in this community, particularly through interviews conducted with young people aged 10 to 17 this article explores how young people themselves understand the roles of the local school and ngo in their personal conceptualisations of the violence in their everyday lives. The evidence indicates that children use spaces available to them opportunistically and that these actions can and should be read as contributing to local, everyday forms of peacebuilding. The ways in which institutional spaces are understood and used by young people as ‘sites of opportunity’ challenges the assumed illegitimacy of young people’s voices and experiences in these environments
Criminology · Economic growth · Everyday life · Face (sociological concept · Peacebuilding · Political economy · Political science · Poverty · Social capital · Social exclusion · Social science · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Conflict, Peace, and Violence in Colombia · Gender Studies · Peace and Human Rights Education
The emergent environmental dimensions of everyday peace
Sport as a tool for development and peace
Contemplating the Lundy Model as a Framework for Children’s Participation in Peace Negotiations
Conceptualizing Conflict-Related Child and Early Marriage as Insecurity
Turning Atrocity Prevention Inside-Out
This is my story”
Everyday peace as a networked process
Children, violence, and social exclusion
Deploying Youth
A Post-Liberal Peace
The mental health of children affected by armed conflict
Conflict Transformation
Citizenship Deferred
Youth Gangs in Nicaragua
Gangs, Urban Violence, and Security Interventions in Central America
Children's Political Representation
Human Rights in Light of Childhood
The effectiveness of multigrade schools in Colombia
A post-liberal peace
Localising peace
The sexual and reproductive rights of internally displaced women
Forced displacement and women's security in Colombia
| Citations per year | 0.82 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |