Child Protection

The place of the child in humanitarian action and communication: moving away from the cliché of childhood as icon

Valérie Gorin • Senior lecturer and researcher at the Centre of Humanitarian Studies, Geneva (University of Geneva and Graduate Institute) and member of the Humanitarian Alternatives Editorial Board Co-editor of...

Children as agents in crises: re-assessing adult-child power dynamics in humanitarian action

The humanitarian sector is not spared from the adultcentrism governing our societies. Taking this notion and its practical implications as a starting point, the two authors deconstruct this doxa and...

Kirstin Kreyscher - Sofie Lilli Stoffel

Humanitarian aid in Palestine: reconsidering neutrality through child protection

In November 1947 the Partition Plan for Palestine was adopted, which would open the chapter of the Arab-Israeli wars. Seventy years later, the humanitarian situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory...

Elise Reslinger  - Joan Deas 

The resilient child: an alternative approach to suffering child icons

Sophie Nakueira • Senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Germany) Can the image of the resilient child permanently counterbalance that of the suffering child? This...

Sophie Nakueira

Critical perspectives on child protection in the Democratic Republic of Congo

In light of a violence prevention programme for children and young people, the author challenges the traditional notions of victimhood and vulnerability. Agentivity and capacity for initiative are valued in...

Camille Maubert

Advancing the participatory rights of Haitian children and youth in the context of migration

Young Haitians who wish to leave their environment to go to Port-au-Prince or further afield should be supported in their endeavour and helped in their choice. Reversing the “protective” and...

Dustin Ciufo