This volume provides a critical assessment of the mainstream western
childhood constructions and their impact to the developing world. Using
African feminist and indigenous epistemological frameworks, the volume
decolonizes the understanding of childhood, children, and youth.
Specifically, the volume presents Global South contestations to
mainstream western constructions by exploring alternative notions to
standardized universal understanding of childhood. The author further
deliberates childhood as a human right, exploring how armed violence
hinders realization of such rights assessing humanitarian assistance
during armed violence. Besides childhood, the volume explores the
complex intersectional nature of youthhood and its cultural relevance to
formerly displaced communities and how this manifests in access to and
use of humanitarian assistance.