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     | Monday, March 19, 2001 - 04:16 pm The protection of children confronting adversity has become one of the central priorities of childhood interventions internationally, especially since 1979, the International Year of the Child. Advocacy for child war victims, working children and those variously exploited or handicapped has successfully attracted the attention and commitment of legislators, policy-makers, rights activists and practitioners throughout the world. And with the near universal ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, there now exists a global framework for the protection and care of children living in extreme situations. Undoubtedly this emphasis is appropriate: most of us would surely accept that children exposed to misfortune merit the best support the world has to offer. However, the protection of children is an uncertain art, with outcomes that are not always positive and cannot always be predicted. Sometimes shortcomings in implementation are due to poor management or lack of expertise, but very often the problem is erroneous conceptualisations of children and childhood due to an absence of valid empirical and theoretical information. Given the lack of systematic research and theory in many key childhood issues, policy affecting children in adversity has, by default, become heavily dependent on studies and normative ideas relating to children in North America and Europe. The global power of western models and understandings is evident, but their applicability and utility across cultures and social contexts is highly questionable. Furthermore, policy often adheres quite uncritically to western theoretical paradigms that have been extensively challenged in academic circles. In this paper, I argue that effective policy requires sound theories and sound field research if it is to benefit children. I focus on children affected by armed conflict and other forms of political violence, and begin by considering some of the ideas and assumptions underlying conventional perspectives and then assess the implications of recent research for a revised view of both children and child-centred emergency interventions. This is what you fools need to be talking about.
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| | Monday, March 19, 2001 - 04:47 pm Blackrap, I am very much intersted to know more about this topic and to hear what you propose alternatively in regards to it. Please do share more.
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| | Monday, March 19, 2001 - 05:32 pm Yo! here is a some infor,that my help you if you are truly intersted. This is somthing we all as muslims should get involed in. Plans to evaluate forms of collaboration with scholars involved in research on human dimensions of global environments change within various national and international research programmes (including the Human Dimensions Programme of the ISSC, the Environment R&D programme of the European Commission and other relevant research programmes in Europe, North America, Japan and the developing countries). Jeffrey Broadbent (Dept Sociology, Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0412, USA, fax: 1-612-62 47020, Email: broad001@maroon.tc.umn.edu) invites members to join his project on comparative research on environmental decision-making in Japan, USA, and possibly Germany and the Netherlands. check it out. for Blackrap input contact Blackrap704@cs.com.
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| | Sunday, March 25, 2001 - 04:06 am Somali culture parents 1 children 0.
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