Dialogues with Children, Mutual Learning Exercises and National Policy Debates
Addressing disaster risk with a young audience poses particular challenges. As seen in the previous chapter, although the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030(UNDRR, 2015) underlines the need to include children and young people as active participants in disaster risk reduction (DR...
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| Tipo de documento: | capítulo de livro |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) |
| Repositório: | O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/153192 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/10609/153192 https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447354437.ch002 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | disaster planning and management disaster response and coordination children's participation participatory research disaster risk reduction sendai framewok CUIDAR resilience participation citizenship |
| Resumo: | Addressing disaster risk with a young audience poses particular challenges. As seen in the previous chapter, although the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030(UNDRR, 2015) underlines the need to include children and young people as active participants in disaster risk reduction (DRR), governments and practitioners are often reluctant to engage young people in matters that may cause them distress or be above their perceived level of competency. So, with a few exceptions, children and young people are virtually invisible as active, engaged participants in national and international emergency planning processes for disasters (Anderson, 2002; Deeming et al, 2011; Walker et al, 2012, Mort et al, 2018b). Studies have shown that when they are mentioned, they are positioned as vulnerable recipients of aid and consequently problematic for emergency planners (Mellor et al, 2014). Yet understanding children's perspectives has been demonstrated, by organisations such as Save the Children, to be a vital part of building resilience. The 1990 United Nations Convention on Children's Rights states that children are community members and citizens in their own right. When it comes to disasters, they have the potential to play an important role in shaping more effective responses at local and national levels (Save the Children, 2011). Most studies of hazards and disasters fail to recognise the role of children and young people as social actors, who are attuned to cultural differences in their community and possess specific knowledge of their local area, knowledge which is shaped by age, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic class, disability and educational opportunities (Peek, 2008; Wisner, 2006; Walker et al, 2012). |
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