Military Training and Children in Armed Conflict: Law, Policy and
Practice (Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden, 2005)
book aims to address three main questions: what are the
obligations of officers of national armed forces in relation
to children, either civilians or combatants, whom they or
those under their command may encounter while participating
in situations of armed conflict? How realistic and
achievable are these obligations? How can compliance with
them be encouraged, monitored, and/or enforced? The book
examines these questions in the context of military
training. In doing so, it has another inextricably linked
aim: to see if there are ways in which the training of
officers can improve the protection of children in armed
conflict situations, in accordance with international law
and policy. It contains case studies of practice in 11
diverse countries, and examples of actual training materials
that can be modified for use in different countries and
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military training regarding children
International Law Concerning Child Civilians in Armed Conflict
(Oxford University Press, Oxford 1997)
The first international law book dedicated to an analysis of
the complex web of human rights and humanitarian law
relevant to the treatment of child civilians in armed
conflict situations. It contains a case study examining the
applicability of this body of law to various conflicts
involving Iraq in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Selected articles / chapters in books
‘Reparations for Children’ in F. Medjouba (ed.) Building Peace in Post-Conflict
Situations (BIICL, 2012), pp.211-224.
'The Development of International Child Law', in T.Cushman (ed.) Handbook of
Human Rights, (Routeledge, 2012), pp.333-348.
Minor Matter? The Place of Children in an EU Security Doctrine’, 18.1
International Journal of Children’s Rights
(2010), pp. 127-147.
‘Children in Armed Conflict: Moral and Legal Dilemmas’ 2008 Symposium Issue (on
child combatants) of Journal of Juvenile Law, La Verne College of Law,
‘Military Training and International
Criminal Accountability’, in International Criminal
Accountability and the Rights of Children, T.M.C. Asser Press/
Cambridge University Press, 2006.
‘Using Law: The Impact of HIV/AIDS on
Women and Children’, Vol. 15, No. 2 Interights Bulletin
(2004), pp. 51-54.
'Children in Armed Conflict: The law
and its uses' in Vol. 43, No.1 Development (March 2000),
Examines the question of
what use is international law concerning children in
armed conflict? She asks 'What is it for? What does it
do?' from a more limited and legalistic question in
order to outline the current law and its implementation
mechanisms before going on to question their value.
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'Children and Armed Conflict – Some
Problems in Law and Policy', in D. Fottrell (ed.) Revisiting
Children's Rights: A Decade on From the Children's Convention (Kluwer
2000), pp. 101-113.