Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 337 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States of America.
Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 337 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States of America.
Child Abuse Negl. 2023 Sep;143:106278. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106278. Epub 2023 Jun 8.
Violence against children (VAC) remains an urgent global dilemma and researchers and policymakers alike continue to work tirelessly to devise strategies aiming to end VAC. However, the perspectives and expertise of children themselves remain underrepresented in the drafting and implementation of these strategies against VAC. This paper draws attention to the marginalization of children living outside of family care and centers their perspective.
This study aimed to characterize the forms of violence experienced by children living outside the family setting in Uganda, from the perspective of children themselves. The paper seeks to position the voicing of this perspective as a form of resistance against VAC from a decolonial perspective.
The participatory research process included a total of 94 participants in various urban study sites in Kampala, Uganda.
The research team completed this qualitative study within a youth-driven participatory action research (YPAR) framework. Data collection techniques included interviews, focus groups, participatory visual methods and social cartography.
Children living outside of family care experience grave forms of emotional, physical and sexual violence. Child participants present survival strategies that can inform future research and policies on violence prevention practice.
The illustration of explicit violence outlined in this study represents a form of resistance children take against their perpetrators. The participatory youth researcher team urges future research and policy addressing VAC in Uganda to center these perspectives and expertise of children and adolescents in both programmatic and research initiatives aiming to end violence against children.
儿童暴力（VAC）仍然是一个紧迫的全球难题，研究人员和政策制定者都在不懈努力，制定旨在结束 VAC 的战略。然而，在起草和实施这些针对 VAC 的战略时，儿童自身的观点和专业知识仍然代表性不足。本文提请注意处于家庭关怀之外的儿童被边缘化的问题，并将他们的观点置于中心位置。
本研究旨在从儿童自身的角度描述乌干达处于家庭环境之外的儿童所经历的暴力形式。本文试图从去殖民化的角度，将这种观点的表达定位为反对 VAC 的一种形式。
参与性研究过程共包括乌干达坎帕拉各个城市研究点的 94 名参与者。
研究团队在青年主导的参与式行动研究（YPAR）框架内完成了这项定性研究。数据收集技术包括访谈、焦点小组、参与式视觉方法和社会制图。
处于家庭关怀之外的儿童经历严重的情感、身体和性暴力。儿童参与者提出了生存策略，可以为未来的预防暴力实践研究和政策提供信息。
本研究中概述的明确暴力表明，儿童对施害者采取了一种反抗形式。参与式青年研究团队敦促未来的研究和政策在乌干达解决 VAC 问题，将儿童和青少年的这些观点和专业知识纳入旨在结束儿童暴力的方案和研究倡议的中心位置。
