Children of War in Colombia and Iraq

Buchanan, Marla J.; Al-Mashat, Kasim; Cortes, Liliana; Djukic, Branka; Jaghori, Beheshta; Thompson, Alanna

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6375-7_8

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“…She found that “short‐term prevention of immediate violence and long‐term efforts to reduce underlying issues that produce large‐scale conflicts” are situated conceptually within the confines of resilience (Carpenter , :5). Maria Buchanan and her colleagues (, ) analyzed how Colombian child soldiers who were exposed to and have experienced armed combat but that did not exhibit trauma‐related symptoms dealt with the effects of war. These children did not identify as soldier or combatant any longer: a univocal step in the resolution of conflicts.…”

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“…Buchanan et al. () identify these children's patterns of adjustment as expression of resilience just as Jacqueline McAdam () regards the pattern of survival of children from zones of conflict in Africa as resilience and as Karner and Parker () have documented that resilience is a critical factor in the peaceful relationship among ethnic communities in the Alum Rock area of Birmingham, UK. These scholars do not offer law‐like generalizations about the role of resilience.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Resilience and International Politics: Premises, Debates, Agenda

Bourbeau

2015

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Resilience has gained substantial traction in international politics of late. This scholarship has sparked debates concerning the meaning of resilience and how scholars should go about studying it. Scholars attuned to Michel Foucault's governmentality thesis argue that resilience is a product of contemporary neoliberalism and constitutes a strategy permitting states to abdicate responsibility in times of crisis. The overarching objective of this article is to tell a different sociopolitical story of the connections between resilience and international politics. In mapping International Relations (IR) scholars working on resilience, the gist of the argument presented here is that although resilience may be in some instances a neoliberal device for governance, it has a wider range of meanings as well. By setting out a different narrative of resilience, this article opens the possibility of an analysis that sees the emergence of resilience in international politics holding great promise for renewing and deepening current IR debates, including securitization, international interventions, vulnerability, resistance, and the political use of myth.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Opportunities and Challenges Of A Resilience Research Agendamentioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience and International Politics: Premises, Debates, Agenda

Bourbeau

2015

Int Stud Rev

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Security, resilience and desecuritization: multidirectional moves and dynamics

Bourbeau

Vuori

2015

Critical Studies on Security

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Resilience in Childrearing Under Forced Migration: The Case of Selected Mothers and Elders at Tongogara Refugee Camp in Zimbabwe (2013-2016)

Tafirenyika

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Mararike

2019

JIAR

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Socio-political conflicts in the Great Lakes Region of Africa have caused an upsurge in the refugees who flee to other regions of the world for safety. Consequently, refugee camps have become common contexts of child growth and development owing to the forced movements of people from their original homes and countries into foreign and unfamiliar ecologies. This article reports part of the findings of a larger exploratory sequential study that explored the nature and quality of refugee immigrant caregivers’ childrearing practices at Tongogara Refugee Camp (TRC) in Zimbabwe. This study reports the resilience in childrearing among selected refugee immigrant caregivers resident at Tongogara Refugee Camp in Zimbabwe between 2013 and 2016. Eighteen (18) refugee mothers and thirteen (13) elders purposively sampled among refugees from DRC, Burundi and Rwanda participated in a qualitative study that used focus group discussions and key informant interviews to collect data. The main finding of the study was that under forced migration conditions, refugee immigrant caregivers become resilient and continue to raise their children despite their traumatic profiles and circumstances. Their resilience emerges from the possession of cultural psychological resources that protect them from traumatic profiles interfering with their child rearing. In addition, it was evident that reconstructed family networks, support from refugee elders as vicars of culture and resistance to psychosocial risk were other mediating factors. The study concluded that psychological cultural templates and reconstructed social networks are strong protective factors for the resilience of refugee caregivers. The key implication for the study is that social actors delivering services in refugee camps should integrate relevant cultural heritage issues in their programmes because they act as protective factors for traumatic experiences that may interfere with child rearing. Sensitive child development programmes are not complete when they exclude children’s socio-cultural context as an important variable.

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Children of War in Colombia and Iraq

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Resilience and International Politics: Premises, Debates, Agenda

Resilience and International Politics: Premises, Debates, Agenda

Security, resilience and desecuritization: multidirectional moves and dynamics

Resilience in Childrearing Under Forced Migration: The Case of Selected Mothers and Elders at Tongogara Refugee Camp in Zimbabwe (2013-2016)

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