Chapter
War Babies as Political Objects
Children as Zones of Peace (CZOP)
‘Peace is institutionalised occupation’: Children and youth in resistance movements
Part I: Shaping Childhood in South Asia
1 Children and Civil Society in South Asia: Subjects, Participants and Political Agents
Contested Concepts: Civil Society and Childhood
Subjects, Participants, and Political Agents
Children as subjects of civil society advocacy
Children as participants in civil society activism and planning
Children as political agents
2 ‘We Will Work Harder to be Our Own Boss’: Children, Vulnerability and Structural Violence
Life Trajectory and Vulnerability
Regional Realities of Acid Attacks
Gender, Vulnerability and Human Rights
3 The Kite Runner: Children, Violence and the Ethnic Imaginary in Afghanistan
What is an Aesthetic Subject?
Children and Negotiations in the Violence of the Ethnic Imaginary
Scene I: Problematizing the ethnic imaginary
Scene 2: The telos versus the everyday
Scene 3: The ethnic imaginary and the Afghan state project
Scene 4: Afghanistan – a plurality
Scene 5: There is a way to be good again – redeeming plurality of identity
Part II: Conflict and Violent Peace
4 Migration, Mobilization, and Memory: The Sri Lankan Civil War in the Lives of Tamil Youth
Militarization and the Politics of Childhood in Sri Lanka
Theorizing Diaspora Politics: From Migration to Mobilization
Collective Memories and Youth Mobilization: The Case of Switzerland and Canada
5 Politics of the Orphans of War: 72 Children’s Journey from the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh to the Suburbs of France
Bangladesh: The World’s Newest and Poorest Nation
Indigenous Misfits in the World’s Newest Nation
Military Occupation of the CHT
The Orphanage that was Home
Protecting the Children and Engendering Belonging
The Governments’ Predicament
The French Charity’s Predicament
Conclusion: A Hybrid Indigenous Identity
6 Besieged Childhood and Broken Dreams: Failed Promises of the State and Maoist Movement in India
The Maoist War and Warring Bodies
Children in the Maoist War
The Impact of Police Atrocities
Cultural Activism and the Influence of Chetna Natya Manch
Poverty and a Lack of Opportunities
Children in the Anti-Maoist Operations
7 Impacts of Terrorism on Children in Pakistan: A Case Study of Displaced Children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Conflict and Displaced Children
Part III: Rights, Needs and Protection
8 Children Affected by Political Violence in India: Human Rights, Politics and Protection
The Impact of Communal Violence Children in India
Communal Violence and the State
Legal Framework to Protect Children
International laws to protect children
The Indian policy context
India’s child protection framework
Conclusion: Politics and Human Rights of Children Affected by Armed Conflict
9 Rethinking Rights and Needs: The Everyday Life of Refugee Children in the Borderland
State’s Exclusionary Policy
A Critical Look at Rights and Needs from Refugee Children’s Perspective
Limited Access to Basic Needs and Services
Gender Specific Experiences of Refugee Children
International Law: Protection for Refugee Children
10 Pinning Down a Paper Tiger: Some Practice Observations on the Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism in Nepal and Asian Contexts
A Monitoring and Reporting Protection Framework: What’s New?
Influencing the ‘Protection Equation’: Engaging the Threat
Grave Violations of Children’s Rights in Armed Conflict in South and South-East Asia
Establishing MRM Task Forces in Asia: Talking about What to Whom?
Monitoring Violations: Collecting the Evidence
MRM Action Plans (Coupling Advocacy and Collaborative Activities to Stop Violations)
Securing an Action Plan in Nepal: A Short History in Advocacy within the Peace Process
Balancing Action Plan Implementation: Are we only fighting with a Paper Tiger?
Challenges with Action Plans in Asian contexts: A Deafening Dialogue?
Practitioners Conclusions
Part IV: Reflections from Human Rights Advocates in the Region
11 Being Young in a Time of Conflict: Kashmiri Youth and Children – A Reflection
12 The Killing of Youths in Sri Lanka: Historical Wrongs and the Failure of the State
13 The Impact of War and Violence on Young Minds
Children and Violence
：Politics of Conflict in South Asia
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