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CHILD SOLDIERS AND PEACE AGREEMENTS

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Abstract

For societies transitioning from conflict to peace, the phenomenon of child soldiers poses significant challenges. These include quandaries associated with assisting in the reintegration of serving child soldiers, determining how to prevent future recruitment of child soldiers, and pursuing accountability of those who utilize child soldiers. In addition, questions are also raised as to whether and how child soldiers responsible for crimes committed during conflict are to be held to account. While no one mechanism or response can adequately and sufficiently address the multifaceted issues that arise, peace agreements, as foundational documents that serve as the blueprint for peacebuilding and the post-conflict State, can make a useful contribution to some or all of them. Drawing on all references to child soldiers in 77 peace agreements signed between 1990 and 2022, this article examines the ways in which peace agreements address the issue of child soldiers.

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public international lawhuman rightschild soldierspeace agreementschildren's rightspeace processes

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International & Comparative Law Quarterly , Volume 73 , Issue 1 , January 2024 , pp. 103 - 134
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150 Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict (n 10) 1.

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152 Sudan/Darfur, Darfur Peace Agreement (5 May 2006) art 24.

153 Yemen, National Dialogue Conference Outcomes Document (25 January 2014) 97, Ch two, Section one, Working Group on Building the Foundations for the Security and Military Institutions, First: Decisions on Constitutional Principles, para 19.

154 Colombia, Acuerdo de la Puerta del Cielo (15 July 1998).

155 Nepal, Agreement on the Monitoring of Arms and Armies (8 December 2006) 1.

156 UN General Assembly, Convention on the Rights of the Child (adopted 20 November 1989, entered into force 2 September 1990) 1577 UNTS 3 (CRC) <https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b38f0.html>.

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162 G Akello, JMH Richters and R Reis, ‘Reintegration of Former Child Soldiers in Northern Uganda: Coming to Terms with Children's Agency and Accountability’ (2006) 4 Intervention: International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work and Counselling in Areas of Armed Conflict 229, 240.

163 Final Agreement to End the Armed Conflict (n 106).

164 Sudan, Sudan Peace Agreement (Juba Agreement) (3 October 2020).

165 Uganda, Agreement on Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration, Juba, Sudan (29 July 2008).

166 Final Agreement to End the Armed Conflict (n 106) 75–6, para 3.2.2.5.

167 ibid 75–6, para 3.2.2.5.

168 ibid 75, para 3.2.2.5.

169 ibid.

170 See, for discussion, R Jeffery, ‘Amnesties and Peace Agreements: The Asia-Pacific in Global Comparative Perspective, 1980–2015’ in R Jeffery (ed), Negotiating Peace: Amnesties, Justice and Human Rights (CUP 2021).

171 CRC (n 156) art 38(2).

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174 UN General Assembly, Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (adopted 25 May 2000, entered into force 12 February 2002) <https://www.refworld.org/docid/47fdfb180.html>.

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176 ibid, art 2.

177 ibid, art 3.

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