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The comprehensive research agenda will:
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identify critical gaps in knowledge about the scope, nature,
and multidimensionality of the impact of armed conflict on
children through systematic and careful aggregation and
synthesis of available data;
· fill gaps in knowledge
by drawing upon emerging data and information gathered by
international, regional and local agencies working in conflict
and post-conflict societies;
· contribute to the
debate between universal and culturally-specific approaches to
child protection by critically analyzing both strands of the
debate;
· add a new theoretical dimension to child
protection issues by shifting focus from 'rights-based'
international legal principles to 'obligation-based'
indigenous strategies for guarding against the victimization
of children in conflict-ridden societies, and;
· assess a specific set of indigenous intervention strategies
for rehabilitating children affected by a war - namely the efforts
of a Sierra Leone NGO, Children Associated with the War - that
contrasts with Western-centric clinical approaches to rehabilitation
and reintegration.
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