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20. Child Soldiers, Justice and Peacebuilding: A Dialectical Analysis of the Conventional Criminal Justice System and African Indigenous Jurisprudence

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Justice processes involving children accused of war-related crimes and other violations of international humanitarian and human rights laws, as a result of their participation in hostilities, often end in contested outcomes because of the child soldiers’ paradoxical portrayals as victims, perpetrators and heroes. Similarly, the lack of justice endangers security and peace processes in war-affected communities. While domestic and international legislation set to adjudicate accusations levelled against children associated with hostilities grapples with striking a balance between the violations of the child’s rights (unlawful recruitments), serving the interests of justice for victims of child soldiers’ violent acts, and child soldiers’ criminal responsibility, some countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have made headway in holding child soldiers accountable, attaining justice for victims via traditional and restorative approaches and paving the way for community post-conflict sustainable peace with child soldiers. The refusal of the ICC to consider the Ugandan traditional mechanisms of accountability in the sentencing of Dominic Ongwen, the abducted child soldier of the Lord’s Resistance Army who perpetrated war crimes and crimes against humanity, has raised serious concerns about the future of traditional or indigenous jurisprudence in handling justice for former child soldiers. This chapter engages a dialectic argument drawn from literary research to argue for a justice model that takes into account cultural context, traditional values and the precedent of African jurisprudence, a compounded interplay of restorative retributivism and restorative sanctions against the logic of the mainstream conventional criminal justice system.

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Titel: Child Soldiers, Justice and Peacebuilding: A Dialectical Analysis of the Conventional Criminal Justice System and African Indigenous Jurisprudence
verfasst von: Jean Chrysostome K. Kiyala
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
Buch: Climate Change and Socio-political Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Anthropocene
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-48374-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-48375-2

Copyright-Jahr: 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48375-2_20