List of Contributors

J. Marshall Beier

is Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University. His current research inquires into issues of children’s rights, security, and political subjecthood. He is the author of International Relations in Uncommon Places: Indigeneity, Cosmology, and the Limits of International Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 2009), editor of Indigenous Diplomacies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and The Militarization of Childhood: Thinking Beyond the Global South (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 1013), and co-editor with Lana Wylie of Canadian Foreign Policy in Critical Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2010). He has authored numerous book chapters and his articles have appeared in Contemporary Security Policy, Critical Studies on Security, Global Governance, International Political Sociology, International Politics, International Studies Review, Security Dialogue, and Third World Quarterly.

Letícia Carvalho

is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at puc Minas, Brazil.

Bina D’Costa

is leading the migration research program at the unicef Office of Research–Innocenti. Her research interests span migration, children and conflict, gender, war crimes and justice. She has undertaken studies on refugees, stateless communities and idps, and has provided input and technical advice to Human Rights bodies, un agencies and ngos. Her publications include (with John Braithwaite) Cascades of Violence in South Asia (forthcoming 2018); (editor) Children and Violence: Politics of Conflict in South Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2016); (with Kim Huynh and Katrina Lee-Koo) Children and Global Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2015); Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia (Routledge, 2011, 2013); Marginalisation and Impunity: Violence against Women and Girls in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (chtc and iwgia, 2014, 2016); and (co-edited with Katrina Lee-Koo) Gender and Global Politics in the Asia-Pacific (Palgrave, 2010) and journal articles.

Myriam Denov

is a Full Professor at McGill University and holds the Canada Research Chair in Youth, Gender and Armed Conflict. Her research interests lie in the areas of children and families affected by war, migration, and its intergenerational impact. A specialist in participatory research, she has worked with war-affected children and families in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Dr. Denov has presented expert evidence in court on child soldiers and has advised government and nongovernmental organizations on children in armed conflict and girls in armed groups. She has authored and co-authored several books on the impact of war on children including Child Soldiers: Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front (Cambridge University Press) and Children Affected by Armed Conflict: Theory, Method & Practice (Columbia University Press). Her current research is exploring the intergenerational effects of wartime sexual violence and children born of wartime rape in multiple countries around the world. Dr. Denov is a Trudeau Fellow and was recently was inducted into the College of the Royal Society of Canada. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she was a commonwealth scholar.

Luke Glanville

is a Fellow in the Department of International Relations, Australian National University. He is the author of Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect: A New History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014), and has placed articles on the politics, ethics, law, and history of R2P-themes in journals such as European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, and European Journal of International Law. Luke is a co-editor of the journal, Global Responsibility to Protect.

Erin Goheen Glanville

is a sshrc Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Erin’s current project is a digital storytelling collaboration around asylum discourse and digital storytelling. She runs community workshops shaped by her doctoral research on refugee fiction as pedagogy and has published on narrative representations of refugees, globalisation, and diaspora fiction.

Michelle Godwin

has broad experience in the humanitarian and development sector. She has worked with ngos, research groups and United Nations agencies. Her work has focused mainly on child protection and public health programmes in post-conflict and ‘transition’ contexts. She is currently Programme Manager with unicef Office of Research-Innocenti’s initiative on adolescence.

Cecilia Jacob

is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations, The Australian National University. Her research focuses on civilian protection, internal conflict and political violence in South and Southeast Asia, and international norms of sovereign responsibility and protection. She is the author of Child Security in Asia: the Impact of Armed Conflict in Cambodia and Myanmar (Routledge, 2014), co-editor of Civilian Protection in the Twenty-First Century: Governance and Responsibility in a Fragmented World (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Dustin Johnson

is a research officer at the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative. His research interests include the recruitment and use of child soldiers, the prevention of mass atrocities, and the role of children in peace processes.

Atim Angela Lakor

is the founder of Watye Ki Gen (We Have Hope), a Ugandan organisation whose members are formerly abducted women held in the bush, working for the rights and the welfare of children born in captivity. Atim Angela was abducted from Aboke St Mary’s College with fellow pupils by the Lord Resistance Army when she was 14 years old. She is co-author of The Lord Resistance Army (lra) Forced Wife System and is currently studying for a Bachelors degree in Development studies at Gulu University, Uganda. She spoke at the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative meeting on tackling stigma at Wilton Park in November 2016.

Katrina Lee-Koo

is a Reader in International Relations and Deputy Director of the Monash Gender, Peace and Security research centre at Monash University, Melbourne Australia. Her research interests include critical security studies, feminist international relations, children and global conflict and the United Nations Security Council’s Women, Peace and Security agenda. Recently, she is the co-author of Children and Global Conflict (with Kim Huynh and Bina D’Costa, Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Ethics and Global Security (with Anthony Burke and Matt McDonald, Routledge 2015).

Ryoko Nakano

is an Associate Professor in the School of International Studies at Kanazawa University, Japan. She was formerly Assistant Professor at the Department of Japanese Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. She is the author of Beyond the Western Liberal Order: Yanaihara Tadao and Empire as Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and published articles on global norm diffusion, East Asian politics, and Japanese perspectives of international relations. She received her Doctor of Philosophy in International Relations from Oxford University in 2005.

Jochen Prantl

is Deputy Director (International Engagement) of the Coral Bell School of Asia-Pacific Affairs and Associate Professor of International Relations at The Australian National University. His research focuses on global governance, international security, and strategic diplomacy. He is currently completing a book, The Crisis of Liberal Institutions, under contract with Oxford University Press. Dr. Prantl holds degrees in Political Science (M.A.) from the University of Bonn and International Relations (M.A.; D.Phil.) from the University of Oxford.

Jeremy Shusterman

has worked as Emergency Specialist with unicef in humanitarian responses in conflict and disaster affected countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Haiti. Between 2005 and 2008 Jeremy worked at the United Nations Secretariat in New York. He serves on a number of surge rosters of humanitarian response specialists.

Hannah Sparwasser Soroka

is a research assistant for the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative and an undergraduate student in Early Modern Studies and Philosophy at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Canada.

Timea Spitka

is a lecturer in the Political Science and International Relations departments at Hebrew University, Israel. She has researched, lectured and written on issues related to R2P, international intervention in violent conflict, mediation, gender and conflict resolution. Dr. Spitka has also worked in conflict zones for international organizations including the un and Oxfam. Her book International Intervention, Identity and Conflict Transformation: Bridges and Walls between Groups was published by Routledge in 2015.

Jana Tabak

is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Institute of International Relations at puc-Rio, Brazil. Her doctoral research was on the participation of children in armed conflicts and the dissertation will be published as a book by the University of Georgia Press (The Child and the World: Child-Soldiers and the Claim for Progress, Atlanta: University of Georgia Press, Forthcoming).

Shelly Whitman

is the Executive Director of the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, based out of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. The Dallaire Initiative is a global organization dedicated to progressively ending the use of children as soldiers. In addition, she is an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and International Development Studies at Dalhousie University.