Charli Carpenter: 3 books
"Lost" Causes
Agenda Vetting in Global Issue Networks and the Shaping of Human Security
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Why do some issues and threats—diseases, weapons, human rights abuses, vulnerable populations—get more global policy attention than others? How do global activist networks decide the particular causes for which they advocate among the many problems in need of solutions? According to Charli Carpenter,...
Forgetting Children Born of War
Setting the Human Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Sexual violence and exploitation occur in many conflict zones, and the children born of such acts face discrimination, stigma, and infanticide. Yet the massive transnational network of organizations working to protect war-affected children has, for two decades, remained curiously silent on the needs...
'Innocent Women and Children'
Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Examining the influence of gender constructs on the international regime protecting war-affected civilians, R. Charli Carpenter examines how in practice belligerents, advocates and humanitarian players interpret civilian immunity so as to leave adult civilian men and older boys at grave risk in conflict...