- Title
- Accountability of child soldiers in conflict situations in Sub Saharan Africa
- Creator
- Fritzen, Johannes
- Subject
- Child soldiers -- Africa
- Subject
- Children and war -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Subject
- Children -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Subject
- Conflict management -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Subject
- Children's rights -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Date Issued
- 2010
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- LLM
- Identifier
- vital:10277
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1561
- Identifier
- Child soldiers -- Africa
- Identifier
- Children and war -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Identifier
- Children -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Identifier
- Conflict management -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Identifier
- Children's rights -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Description
- Throughout the world, but especially in the African continent, international, cross-border and national conflicts are ongoing. In the majority of these conflicts child soldiers are involved in various ways. Judicial problems concerning the prosecution of commanders and leaders of armed groups, irrespective of governmental or not are being solved. Thus, underlying concern is left to the issue of accountability of child soldiers. International, Regional and National protection measures provide for certain judicial standards dealing with children under the age of eighteen. In order to fully understand the difficulties arising from the existence of universal binding measurement dealing with the accountability of child soldiers, one has to be aware of the international, regional and national legislative frameworks. In Sub Saharan Africa, especially in Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, governments face various difficulties, such as the implantation process of international protection measures and ongoing conflicts, making it very difficult to examine the status of accountability measures for child soldiers. States have different minimum ages for accountability for child soldiers. Only a process of international co-operation between governments and non state actors can attempt to deal with the accountability of child soldiers. Not only deterrent, but rather restitution approaches and reintegration programmes should be followed in order to bring justice and achieve results in peace processes.
- Format
- iii, 79 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Law
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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