The Children and Armed Conflict Agenda and Forced Displacement

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Notes

1 The Convention on the Rights of the Child (Resolution 44/25) defines a ‘child’ as a person below the age of 18.

2 The concept of poverty can apply to different circumstances depending on context. Poverty is the condition of lacking economic access to fundamental human needs such as food, shelter and safe drinking water. While some define poverty primarily in economic terms, others consider social and political arrangements also to be intrinsic — often manifested in a lack of dignity.

3 See: Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict (n.d.).

4 For additional information regarding the UN Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict and the MRM, see: Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict (2009).

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Notes on contributors

Dragica Mikavica

DRAGICA MIKAVICA is the Advocacy Officer at Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, a network of child-focused international human rights and humanitarian organisations. Dragica leads the design and implementation of Watchlist’s advocacy strategies in New York in order to advance its priorities with the United Nations Security Council, permanent missions, agencies, and other relevant bodies. Dragica has been with Watchlist since 2013, and her previous roles include working alongside UNDP’s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery performing UN-based policy research on conflict prevention from 2010 to 2013. She also conducted human rights fieldwork in Nepal in 2010. Dragica holds a BA from Cornell University (2006) and an MA from The New School (2011). She grew up in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the conflict in the early 1990s, which informed her passion for child rights advocacy in conflict settings. She is based in New York City.

Chrissie Monaghan

CHRISSIE MONAGHAN is a Research Officer at Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict. She is responsible for preparing the organisation’s ‘Field Monitors’, which aim to provide regular updates and policy advice, based on information from the field, to improve national and global policy responses for children affected by armed conflict. Chrissie previously served as a Program Officer at the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, where she coordinated activities designed to develop an evidence-base of programmatic measures to protect education from attack and conducted research for Education Under Attack 2018. She has carried out multiple research projects in countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa, including an evaluation of UNICEF’s Peacebuilding, Education, and Advocacy (PBEA) programme in Ethiopia and Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp. She has also taught courses in International Education at the University of Virginia and New York University. Chrissie holds a doctorate focused on International Relations and refugee education and a Bachelor of Arts in History, both from the University of Virginia.