HIST 3320: The History of Childhood

Week 16: Children and War

Tuesday, Dec. 10: Stearns, Ch. 11, “The Dislocations of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Children Face War and Violence’

• Explore the Human Rights Watch site on child labor 

https://www.hrw.org/topic/childrens-rights/child-labor#

• Countries in Conflict: Worst Places to be a Child

https://www.savethechildren.org/us/charity-stories/worst-conflict-affected-countries-to-be-a-child

• War through the eyes of Gaza’s children

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I--AUvKnP6k

Thursday, Dec. 12^th: Last Class: Globalization and Childhood: A Universalist Model? Readings:

• Stearns, Ch. 12, “Globalization and Childhood”
• UN Convention on the Rights of Children https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention/what-is-the-convention

(Explore the cite to listen to children’s voices and garner information on children around the globe)

• Will you Listen? Young Voices from the Conflict Zones (Machel Study, 10 year Strategic Review for The 1996 UN Report “The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children.”
• Discussion and Wrap up

Discussion Questions:

• What major issues are children facing in the modern world?
• Did globalization foster a uniform childhood for all? Support your answer with suitable examples. 
• How do readings from this class help you understand the question of child’s labor in HRW site?
• Did the UN Convention on the Rights of Children make a difference in children’s lives around the globe? Argue for or against your claim backed by evidence. 

Final Paper due on Tuesday, December 17, 2024, 11:59 pm.

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• What are the issues facing children of the modern world?
• Did globalization foster a uniform childhood for all? Support your answer with suitable examples. 
• How do readings from this class help you understand the question of child’s labor in HRW site?
• Did the UN Convention on the Rights of Children make a difference in children’s lives around the globe? Argue for or against your claim backed by evidence. 
• What is the major argument Sarada Balagopalan is attempting to make through her articles? 

Discussion Board (DB) #9 (250-300 words) due on Blackboard.

• Imagine yourself as a lawyer for the Human Rights Watch or an advocate for children’s rights. What historical evidence would you select from your readings to make an argument against children’s labor or protection or promotion of children’s rights? Choose a specific child labor violation on the HRW site or a child right’s issue from the UN Convention on Rights of Children and relate it to specific historical evidence to make your case.