Child Soldiers In Context

Author : Artur Bogner,Gabriele Rosenthal
Publisher : Göttingen University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Child soldiers
ISBN : 9783863954550

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Child Soldiers in Context by Artur Bogner,Gabriele Rosenthal Pdf

Long before “IS” and “Boko Haram”, the messianic “Lord’s Resistance Army” (LRA) in Uganda was considered as one of the most brutal rebel groups in Africa, or in the world, and as one which clearly specialized in the abduction, “recruitment” and deployment of children and adolescents as ombatants. This book presents the results of a research project on former child soldiers and rebels in northern Uganda and their “reintegration” into society after their return to civilian life. The authors investigate their biographies and the social figurations or relationships between them and members of the civilian population that emerged following their return, not least in their families of origin, and show which conditions facilitate or hinder their “(re)integration” into civilian life. The discussion also shows what distinguishes them from former members of rebel groups in the neighboring region of West Nile, in respect of their history and how they were recruited, as well as in their present situation and social position.

Author : Artur Bogner,Gabriele Rosenthal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1199736647

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Child Soldiers in Context by Artur Bogner,Gabriele Rosenthal Pdf

Author : K. Fisher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137030504

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Transitional Justice for Child Soldiers by K. Fisher Pdf

This book examines and offers suggestions for how post-conflict practices should conceptualize and address harms committed by child soldiers for successful social reconstruction in the aftermath of mass atrocity. It defends the use of accountability and considers the agency of youth participants in violent conflict as responsible moral entities.

Author : Opiyo Oloya
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442664258

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Child to Soldier by Opiyo Oloya Pdf

What happens when children are forced to become child soldiers? How are they transformed from children to combatants? In Child to Soldier, Opiyo Oloya addresses these timely, troubling questions by exploring how Acholi children in Northern Uganda, abducted by infamous warlord Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), become soldiers. Oloya – himself an Acholi, a refugee from Idi Amin’s rule of Uganda, and a high ranking figure in Canadian education – is a scholar who challenges conventional thinking on child-inducted soldiers by illustrating the familial loyalty that develops within a child’s new surroundings in the bush. Based on interviews with former child combatants, this book provides a cultural context for understanding the process of socializing children into violence. Oloya details how Kony and the LRA exploit and pervert Acholi cultural heritage and pride to control and direct the children in war. Child to Soldier is also ground-breaking in its emphasis on the tragic fact that child-inducted soldiers do not remain children forever, but become adults who remain sharply scarred by their introduction into combat at a young age. Given the constant struggle in courts in deciding whether former child-inducted soldiers should be pardoned or prosecuted for their activities and conduct, Oloya’s eye-opening book will have a major impact.

Author : Mark A. Drumbl,Jastine C. Barrett
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788114486

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Research Handbook on Child Soldiers by Mark A. Drumbl,Jastine C. Barrett Pdf

Child soldiers remain poorly understood and inadequately protected, despite significant media attention and many policy initiatives. This Research Handbook aims to redress this troubling gap. It offers a reflective, fresh and nuanced review of the complex issue of child soldiering. The Handbook brings together scholars from six continents, diverse experiences, and a broad range of disciplines. Along the way, it unpacks the life-cycle of youth and militarization: from recruitment to demobilization to return to civilian life. The overarching aim of the Handbook is to render the invisible visible – the contributions map the unmapped and chart new directions. Challenging prevailing assumptions and conceptions, the Research Handbook on Child Soldiers focuses on adversity but also capacity: emphasising the resilience, humanity, and potentiality of children affected (rather than ‘afflicted’) by armed conflict.

Author : Michael Wessells
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674032552

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Child Soldiers by Michael Wessells Pdf

Compelling and humane, this book reveals the lives of the 300,000 child soldiers around the world, challenging stereotypes of them as predators or a lost generation. Kidnapped or lured by the promise of food, protection, revenge, or a better life, children serve not only as combatants but as porters, spies, human land mine detectors, and sexual slaves. Nearly one-third are girls, and Michael Wessells movingly reveals the particular dangers they face from pregnancy, childbirth complications, and the rejection they and their babies encounter in their local contexts. Based mainly on participatory research and interviews with hundreds of former child soldiers worldwide, Wessells allows these ex-soldiers to speak for themselves and reveal the enormous complexity of their experiences and situations. The author argues that despite the social, moral, and psychological wounds of war, a surprising number of former child soldiers enter civilian life, and he describes the healing, livelihood, education, reconciliation, family integration, protection, and cultural supports that make it possible. A passionate call for action, Child Soldiers pushes readers to go beyond the horror stories to develop local and global strategies to stop this theft of childhood.

Author : Rachel Brett,Irma Specht
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 922113718X

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Young Soldiers by Rachel Brett,Irma Specht Pdf

It is estimated that more than 300,000 children are involved in armed conflicts throughout the world, the vast majority through forced labour. This publication contains the personal views and experiences of child soldiers, highlighting a number of factors contributing to their participation, including the socio-economic and political environment, and their vulnerable personal circumstances, as well as how diverse risk factors interact. These personal stories also draw attention to the gender dimensions of the problem, and to concept of child soldiers 'volunteering' in armed conflict situations. The book then goes on to explore key factors in the development of a comprehensive strategy to tackle the problem, including addressing issues of breakdown of law and order, availability of weapons, extreme forms of social exclusion including poverty and inequality, lack of educational opportunities, widespread child abuse and child labour. The publication includes profiles of conflict situations in Afghanistan, Colombia, the Congo, Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Sri Lanka.

Author : Hyeran Jo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107110045

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Compliant Rebels by Hyeran Jo Pdf

This book analyzes civil wars over the past twenty years and examines what motivates some rebel groups to abide by international law.

Author : Alcinda Honwana
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812204773

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Child Soldiers in Africa by Alcinda Honwana Pdf

Young people have been at the forefront of political conflict in many parts of the world, even when it has turned violent. In some of those situations, for a variety of reasons, including coercion, poverty, or the seductive nature of violence, children become killers before they are able to grasp the fundamentals of morality. It has been only in the past ten years that this component of warfare has captured the attention of the world. Images of boys carrying guns and ammunition are now commonplace as they flash across television screens and appear on the front pages of newspapers. Less often, but equally disturbingly, stories of girls pressed into the service of militias surface in the media. A major concern today is how to reverse the damage done to the thousands of children who have become not only victims but also agents of wartime atrocities. In Child Soldiers in Africa, Alcinda Honwana draws on her firsthand experience with children of Angola and Mozambique, as well as her study of the phenomenon for the United Nations and the Social Science Research Council, to shed light on how children are recruited, what they encounter, and how they come to terms with what they have done. Honwana looks at the role of local communities in healing and rebuilding the lives of these children. She also examines the efforts undertaken by international organizations to support these wartime casualties and enlightens the reader on the obstacles faced by such organizations.

Author : Alpaslan Özerdem,Sukanya Podder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230342927

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Child Soldiers: From Recruitment to Reintegration by Alpaslan Özerdem,Sukanya Podder Pdf

This book examines the complex and under-researched relationship between recruitment experiences and reintegration outcomes for child soldiers. It looks at time spent in the group, issues of cohesion, identification, affiliation, membership and the post demobilization experience of return, and resettlement.

Author : David M. Rosen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000552133

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Jewish Child Soldiers in the Bloodlands of Europe by David M. Rosen Pdf

This book is about the experiences of Jewish children who were members of armed partisan groups in Eastern Europe during World War II and the Holocaust. It describes and analyze the role of children as activists, agents, and decision makers in a situation of extraordinary danger and stress. The children in this book were hunted like prey and ran for their lives. They survived by fleeing into the forest and swamps of Eastern Europe and joining anti-German partisan groups. The vast majority of these children were teenagers between ages 11 and 18, although some were younger. They were, by any definition, child soldiers, and that is the reason they lived to tell their tales. The book will be of interest to general and academic audiences. There is also great interest in children and childhood across disciplines of history and the social sciences. It is likely to spark considerable debate and interest, since its argument runs counter to the generally accepted wisdom that child soldiers must first and foremost be seen as victims of their recruiters. The argument of this book is that time, place, and context play a key role in our understanding of children’s involvement in war and that in some contexts children under arms must be seen as exercising an inherent right of self-defense.

Author : William Plowright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000351910

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Armed Groups and International Legitimacy by William Plowright Pdf

This book analyses the issue of child soldiers in order to understand how armed groups engage with international organizations to gain international legitimacy. The work examines why some armed groups ‘follow the rules’ of international humanitarian law and others do not. It argues that armed groups in conflicts around the world engage with international organizations in order to gain international legitimacy and to show they are following the laws of war. By examining the issue of child soldiers in contemporary armed conflict, the volume establishes a typology of which groups will engage with international actors and follow the laws of war – and which will not. The main aim of the book is to understand the rationality of even the most violent of actors, and to understand when and how armed groups can be encouraged to follow the laws of war. The work draws from extensive primary research conducted among armed groups in Syria and Myanmar, including al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the many small ethnic insurgent groups of Myanmar. This book will be of much interest to students of war and conflict studies, security studies, international humanitarian law, and International Relations.

Author : Gus Waschefort
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782254331

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International Law and Child Soldiers by Gus Waschefort Pdf

This book commences with an analysis of the current state of child soldiering internationally. Thereafter the proscriptive content of contemporary norms on the prohibition of the use and recruitment of child soldiers is evaluated, so as to determine whether these norms are capable of better enforcement. An 'issues-based' approach is adopted, in terms of which no specific regime of law, such as international humanitarian law (IHL), is deemed dominant. Instead, universal and regional human rights law, international criminal law and IHL are assessed cumulatively, so as to create a mutually reinforcing web of protection. Ultimately, it is argued that the effective implementation of child soldier prohibitive norms does not require major changes to any entity or functionary engaged in such prevention; rather, it requires the constant reassessment and refinement of all such entities and functionaries, and here, some changes are suggested. International judicial, quasi-judicial and non-judicial entities and functionaries most relevant to child soldier prevention are critically assessed. Ultimately the conclusions reached are assessed in light of a case study on the use and recruitment of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Author : Ilene Cohn,Guy S. Goodwin-Gill,Institut Henry-Dunant
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198259328

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Child Soldiers by Ilene Cohn,Guy S. Goodwin-Gill,Institut Henry-Dunant Pdf

1.3 Who is the Child?

Author : Jimmie Briggs
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786738502

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Innocents Lost by Jimmie Briggs Pdf

Ida, a member of Sri Lanka’s Female Tamil Tigers, fought with one of the longest-surviving and successful guerilla movements in the world. She is sixteen. Francois, a fourteen-year-old Rwandan child of mixed ethnicity, was forced by Hutu militiamen to hack to death his sister’s Tutsi children.More than 250,000 children have fought in three dozen conflicts around the world, but growing exploitation of children in war is staggering and little known. From the “little bees” of Colombia to the “baby brigades” of Sri Lanka, the subject of child soldiers is changing the face of terrorism. For the last seven years, Jimmie Briggs has been talking to, writing about, and researching the plight of these young combatants. The horrific stories of these children, dramatically told in their own voices, reveal the devastating consequences of this global tragedy.Cogent, passionate, impeccably researched, and compellingly told, Innocents Lost is the fullest, most personal and powerful examination yet of the lives of child soldiers.