Children’s Rights
Convenor
Call for Papers
Abstracts may only be submitted via the Easy Chair system
. They must be no longer than 300 words and must include your title, name and institutional affiliation and your email address for correspondence.
The deadline for the submissions is Monday 19 January 2015.
Contributions are invited for this new stream that provides a platform for interdisciplinary dissemination and exchange of the latest children’s rights research. We welcome papers exploring children’s rights from a methodological, ethical, theoretical and normative perspective at local, national, European or international level. We are particularly interested in papers on substantive children’s rights issues thart respond to the following broad themes:
• Children’s access to justice
• Children’s participation
• Balancing children’s autonomy with adult/parental authority
Children’s rights monitoring and evaluation
For informal discussion please email the stream convenors at the e-mail addresses above
Session Programme (Papers and Rooms are subject to change)
Tuesday: Session 2: Ramphal Room 3.41
Session Title: Understanding the Scope and Impact of Children’s Rights of Autonomy
Papers: Seen and Still Not Heard? The Lived Realities of Children and Young People's Participation in Ireland in their Homes, Schools and Communities. - Aisling Parkes
Conceptualising children’s rights around participation in elite sport - Eleanor Drywood
Tuesday: Session 3: Ramphal Room 3.41
Session Title: Accommodating Best Interests: Tensions and Potential Solutions
Papers: Lessons in Valuing Children: Conflicts of Interests, “Best Interests”, Rights, and School Exclusion -Lucinda Ferguson
Becoming tyrannous? A capabilities approach to best interests assessments - Michael Thomson
Islamic States rebuff The Hague Abduction Convention: Justified explanations or just excuses? - Nazia Yaqub
Wednesday: Session 4: Ramphal Room 3.41
Session Title: Protecting Children from Harm: Legal and Methodological Strategies
Papers: A Successful Case of Planning on Children’s Rights - Azadeh Chalabi
Children's wishes and feelings about parental harm: Ascertaining the unascertainable? - Vanessa Richardson
Childhood Obesity: A Case of Parental Neglect or State Failure? - Naomi Salmon
Wenesday: Session 5: Ramphal Room 3.41
Session Title: Achieving Child Friendly Justice
Papers: Children's voices: Centre-stage or side-lined in out-of-court dispute resolution in England and Wales? - Jan Ewing, Rosemary Hunter, Anne Barlow and Janet Smithson
The Child Rights Law of Lagos State 2007: A Qualitative Study of Child Justice - Iyabode Ogunniran and Chinwe R Nwanna
Methodological tools for exploring and promoting children’s rights in the justice process - Helen Stalford, Liam Cairns and Jeremy Marshall