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Record W2071123465 · doi:10.1386/ijcis.2.2.151_1

The lost generation of Iraq: children caught in the crossfire

2008· article· en· W2071123465 on OpenAlexaff
Shereen T. Ismael

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHealth and Conflict Studies
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPovertyInnocenceLanguage changeCriminologyPolitical scienceGovernment (linguistics)Development economicsPolitical economySociologyLawEconomics

Abstract

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The invasion and occupation of Iraq have brought alongside an explosion in sectarian warfare, social dilapidation, gangsterism and corruption. Impacting the whole of Iraq, children have been particularly victimized by the dismantling of the organizing forces of both state and society. In this survey, it is argued that the degradation of the child's status flows from conscious policy decisions that have been made by occupation authorities. Neo-liberal prerogatives demanded the dismantling of Iraq's social sector, the destruction of its working and middle classes, and the creation of a pliable non-representative Iraqi government. Reconstruction of Iraq has become a cruel farce, and the engineering of social collapse and fractured identity have created a widespread environment of violence and hopelessness. It is in this environment that Iraq's next generation is being raised. The contemporary status of Iraq's children is surveyed on several dimensions: first, the collapse of Iraq's health infrastructure is shown to have had deleterious effects on the physical status of children, reflected by a dramatic rise in infant mortality rates and treatable disease; second, endemic violence and desperate poverty has forced many children to withdraw from primary education, denying them the formative learning experience necessary for social and intellectual growth. Finally, the cumulative effects of surrounding violence, poverty and psychological trauma has created a host of social pathologies in Iraqi children and society, robbing Iraqi children of their innocence, and portending a future Iraq that will be dominated by the maladjusted and the violent.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.184
Threshold uncertainty score0.686

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.279
GPT teacher head0.482
Teacher spread0.203 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2008
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