Articles

• Quénivet, Noëlle 1

Abstract

This article investigates whether international law prohibits the prosecution of children for war crimes and, if it does not, whether it should do so. In particular, the interplay between restorative and retributive post-conflict justice mechanisms, on the one hand, and juvenile rehabilitative justice mechanisms, on the other, is discussed in detail. The article suggests that in certain, narrow, circumstances children having committed war crimes should be prosecuted.

• 1Associate Professor in International Law and Head of the International Law and Human Rights Unit, Faculty of Business and Law, Bristol Law School, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom. Email: Noelle.Quenivet@uwe.ac.uk.