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Event Date: Thursday 13 October 2011,
9.30am – 5pm
Birkbeck Main Building
Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX

Childhood and violence: international and comparative perspectives

Seminar 6: The ethics of researching violence and childhood

Drawing on the themes of the five earlier seminars, this session discusses the ethics and politics of researching violence against and by children. It considers issues such as visual ethics, the ethics of carrying out ethnography in situations of violence, research methods and the implications for policy and practice in child protection, human rights, conflict and mediation and psychotherapy.
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Welcome and introduction Dr Karen Wells (Birkbeck) .

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Dr Judith Ennew
(senior Research Fellow, Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya)
Designing and implementing research on violence and children in three Asian contexts
[AUDIO HERE]

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Emilie Medeiros (Doctoral Student, University College London)
Ethics and ethnography with former Maoist youngsters in Nepal
[AUDIO HERE]

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Priya Muqit
(Children’s Law and Policy Officer, Freedom from Torture (formerly Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture))
Children’s participation in the legal process and the challenges facing torture surviving children
[AUDIO HERE]

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Dr Jenny Parkes
(Senior Lecturer in Education, Gender and International Development, Institute of Education, University of London)
Research at the ethical borderlands
[AUDIO HERE]

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Event Date: 30 June 2011
Room B20
Birkbeck Main Building
Birkbeck College, Malet Street
London, WC1E 7HX

Childhood and Violence: international and comparative perspectives
- Seminar 5: Children affected by war,
with a focus on “child soldiers”

This seminar focuses on the impact of war on children and childhood, looking specifically at child soldiers. Although young soldiers are not a new phenomenon, the extreme brutality and brutalising of child soldiers in recent conflicts has made the abolition of the use of children as soldiers a core demand of many international non-governmental organisations and child rights practitioners.

Siobhan McAlister (Transition and Social Justice Initiative, Queen’s University, Belfast) - Childhood in Transition: Experiencing conflict and marginalisation in Northern Ireland

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