Description
Book SynopsisExplores how standards of international juvenile justice were operationalised by the state and UNICEF in post-genocide Rwanda. Will appeal to academics, researchers and students of law (in particular child rights and human rights law), socio-legal scholars, international relations scholars and political scientists.
Trade Review'Child Perpetrators on Trial: Insights from Post-Genocide Rwanda thoroughly and comprehensively analyzes the various actors working in the juvenile justice system in post-genocide Rwanda and how child perpetrators of genocidal acts progressed through this justice system … With these intriguing speculations, Barrett leaves readers eager to hear more.' Elizabeth D. Wiseman, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics
Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. International standards on child perpetrators of atrocities; 3. Putting international standards into practice; 4. Rwanda: setting the context; 5. Rwanda's responses, in law, policy and practice, to child génocidaires; 6. International actors and the Rwandan child génocidaire; 7. UNICEF Rwanda's policy and advocacy: a strategic approach; 8. Evaluating UNICEF Rwanda's approach: a case of principled pragmatism?; 9. Child perpetrators and child rights: Rwanda and beyond.
