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Reparations as a Means for Recognizing and Addressing Crimes and Grave Rights Violations Against Girls and Boys During Situations of Armed Conflict and Under Authoritarian and Dictatorial Regimes

Authored by: Dyan Mazurana and Khristopher Carlson

Categories: Statebuilding
Sub-Categories: Mass Atrocities, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), Transitional Justice
Region: No Region
Year: 2009
Citation: Mazurana, Dyan and Khristopher Carlson. "Reparations as a Means for Recognizing and Addressing Crimes and Grave Rights Violations Against Girls and Boys During Situations of Armed Conflict and Under Authoritarian and Dictatorial Regimes." In The Gender of Reparations: Unsettling Sexual Hierarchies While Redressing Human Rights Violations, edited by Ruth Rubio-MarĂ­n, 162-214. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Executive Summary

This chapter, which analyzes the experiences, challenges, and possibilities around reparations and children, does so in the spirit of asking what role reparations may be able to play in partially addressing the grave human rights violations that children endure during situations of armed conflict and political violence orchestrated by authoritarian and dictatorial regimes. Our approach to reparations draws broadly on an understanding of the concept within international law and reflects on how reparations have been carried out in practice. Hence, we consider both reparations programs designed to distribute direct benefits to the victims themselves–including restitution, compensation, and rehabilitation –as well as other key measures and initiatives within transitional justice that, if crafted with forethought and care, could have reparative effects, namely, rehabilitation, satisfaction, and guarantee of non recurrence.