Child Soldiers and Clicktivism
Justice, Myths, and Prevention
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12930219 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark A Drumbl (0000-0001-8055-1205, Washington and Lee University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 481-485 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Rights Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-9619 • E-ISSN: 1757-9627 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jhuman/hus023 |
| OpenAlex | W2103892047 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 2 |
The Kony 2012 campaign, conducted under the auspices of an American advocacy group, Invisible Children, highlighted – somewhat belatedly – the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), its leadership, and its many victims in northern Uganda, notably child soldiers. Deeper questions lurk, however, amid the breezy media flurry. How does Kony 2012 inform our understanding of child soldiers? How does it sculpt international efforts to prevent child soldiering? Kony 2012 draws from and buttresses pre-existing assumptions and narratives. I argue in my book Reimagining Child Soldiers that these assumptions and narratives, however well intended, incubate policy initiatives that assuage collective sensibilities but, ultimately, fall short in terms of actual effectiveness (Drumbl, 2012). People have thought hard about the impact of media on messages for quite some time, including well before the dawn of the internet. Nearly 50 years ago, Marshall McLuhan opined that the medium was (is) the message (McLuhan, 1964). Undoubtedly, activists and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) would do well to harness the power of contemporary social media. But the content of the message itself still really matters. Is it sensible for international law and policy to be based upon stylized content deliberately airbrushed just to increase attention-worthiness? More international law, and more attention to international law, does not invariably lead to progress. Substance counts, too. Misguided law, after all, leads to ineffective outcomes
Criminology · Economic Justice · Mythology · Political science · Children's Rights and Participation · Psychology · Classics · History · Law
Clicktivism
‘Reaching in’? The potential for e-petitions in local government in the United Kingdom
Victims and/or perpetrators? Towards an interdisciplinary dialogue on child soldiers
Visual narratives of the child soldier
Youth combatants and Rhodesia’s Second Chimurenga war
Challenging humanitarian communication
It Depends
Paralocal relationships
Hábitos y actitudes de los jóvenes ante las redes sociales
The Pitfalls and Potential of the Systematic Collection of Data on Child Soldier Recruitment
The Spectrum of Liability to Defensive Harm and the Case of Child Soldiers
Narratives of Africa in a Digital World
Childhood, Human Rights and Adversity
Kony 2012 Through a Prism of Video Advocacy Practices and Trends
Racism is Not Getting Worse, It’s Getting Filmed”
Learning about Feminism in Digital Spaces
Steve Biko and a critique of global governance as white liberalism
The state of play
The contingency of change in the Anthropocene
Many Clicks but Little Sticks
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |