- Title
- Creating Inclusive Reconciliation and Reporting Spaces with Children: Valuing Their Stories
- Creator
- Mollica, Caitlin
- Relation
- Children, Childhoods and Global Politics p. 31-44
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.51952/9781529232332
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- The conflict stories of children are integral to meaningful reconciliation following violence. Increasingly, children’s stories and their identities have come to reflect a broader peace narrative within transitional justice. Yet often the participation of children is retold and shared through mechanisms that are inaccessible and disconnected from their reconciliation experiences. As such, children’s interactions with reconciliation practices are often static, heavily mediated and unresponsive, particularly when their stories are used as symbols for a political agenda. Only three Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) – Canada, Sierra Leone, and Timor-Leste – have created accessible conflict narrative reports that facilitate children’s political engagement in reconciliation. This chapter considers the role of child-friendly reports in delivering reconciliation processes that recognize children as political actors rather than embodiments of peace. It argues that TRCs have an obligation to produce accessible reports that fulfil the state’s obligation to children as citizens. By normalizing accessible reporting standards, opportunities are created for inclusive international processes with not for children even beyond the reconciliation space.
- Subject
- reconciliation processes; children; Truth and Reconciliation Commissions; stories of conflict
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1502043
- Identifier
- uon:55200
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781529232332
- Language
- eng
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