{"id":499,"date":"2021-02-03T14:59:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T13:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lpinstitute.dev.onpressidium.com\/news\/601ac8a3df750537a41f8308\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T22:44:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T21:44:35","slug":"childrens-capacities-freedom-and-the-capacity-building-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningplanetinstitute.org\/en\/news\/capacites-des-enfants-liberte-et-processus-de-formation-des-capacites\/","title":{"rendered":"Children's capacities, freedom and the capacity-building process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To read the full report, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/19452829.2020.1767547\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When thinking about children's rights, priority tends to be given to protecting their welfare gains, while limiting their right to exercise freedom and agency. The 'incapacity\u201d hypothesis serves as a justification for limiting children's freedom and agency. Using the capabilities approach (CA) as a method of conceptualizing what is owed to individuals, this article shows that the justification for restricting the freedom of \u201dincapacitated\u201c individuals is not as straightforward as is assumed. To understand the role played by capabilities in the justified restriction of freedom, it is necessary to assess what it means to be \u201d(in)able\u201c and how this \u201dincapacity\u201c can translate into particular privileges or restrictions. The article therefore sets out to answer the following questions: firstly, how is the concept of \u201dcapacity\u201c to be understood in the CA? And, secondly, how does capacity relate to our understanding of the legitimate restriction of freedom and action? The article proposes an answer to the first question through an evolutionary and dynamic understanding of \u201dcapacity\u201c It further argues that the process by which capacity develops (the process of capacity formation) should be taken into account when assessing what is owed to an individual in terms of justice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nico Brando<\/strong> is a British Academy-funded Newton International Fellow working at the Centre for Children's Rights at Queen's University Belfast. He specializes in moral and political philosophy, and is particularly interested in issues relating to the political treatment of marginalized groups, children's rights and the capabilities approach.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report by Nico Brando, Newton International Fellow<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"acf":[],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningplanetinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningplanetinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningplanetinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningplanetinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningplanetinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningplanetinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningplanetinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningplanetinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningplanetinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningplanetinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}