Child Perpetrators on Trial - Insights From Post-Genocide Rwanda

A multidisciplinary empirical study of how juvenile justice standards were operationalised by the state and UNICEF in post-genocide Rwanda.

List of contents

1. 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.

About the author

Jastine C. Barrett is a UK-qualified lawyer and independent human rights consultant. She is currently an Honorary Researcher at Kent Law School, the University of Kent. Barrett completed her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, and also holds an LL.M. in International Law and International Relations and a B.A. (Hons) in Languages. She has served as Editor and Managing Editor for the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law and on the management committee of the 'UK's Solicitors'.

Product details

• Authors: Jastine C. Barrett
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781108496551
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49655-1
• No. of pages: 366
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Civil Rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties