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DSIS researcher involved in COST Action ‘Child Voices: Participation, Well-being & Resilience of Children in the Era of Polycrisis'
DSIS Senior Research Fellow Dr Ian Hughes has joined the Management Committee for the COST Action ‘Child Voices: Participation, Well-being & Resilience of Children in the Era of Polycrisis (CHILDVOICES)’.
The main aim and objective of the Action is to address the urgent challenge of ensuring meaningful child participation during the polycrisis, a period of overlapping crises including climate change, conflict, migration, and pandemics, by bridging the gap between the normative recognition of children's participation rights and their practical realisation.
This COST Action aims to create a network that brings together scholars, experts, and practitioners dedicated to ensuring and protecting child participation amidst multiple crises, thereby prioritizing children’s well-being.
The DSIS project’s conceptualisation of the polycrisis as rooted in the structure of social institutions and the urgent need for deep reimaging will help inform DSIS’ engagement with the COST network.