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Children affected by armed conflict: a critical perspective on discourses, representations and deriving practices

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Through this chapter I would like to pay homage to Manfred Liebel as a teacher who has had an incommensurable impact on my own journey from working in child protection to being a student of the MA Childhood Studies and Children’s Rights. As a Syrian woman, who, before starting this course, had initiated a psychosocial project with children seeking asylum on the Syrian Turkish border, I entered the Master’s programme with a perspective rooted in the daily reality of the displaced children affected by war with whom I was in close contact for three years. This perspective was however charged with questions, frustrations and discomforts related to the discrepancy between the realities I had come to ‘learn’ and my own preconceptions as well as the discourses I was confronted with through collaborations with NGO’s and donor expectations.

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Zarif, A. (2020). Children affected by armed conflict: a critical perspective on discourses, representations and deriving practices. In: Budde, R., Markowska-Manista, U. (eds) Childhood and Children’s Rights between Research and Activism . Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-29180-8_13

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