Child soldiers in the age of fractured states
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Bibliographic Information
Child soldiers in the age of fractured states
(The security continuum : global politics in the modern age)
University of Pittsburgh Press, c2010
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Methodological problems in the study of child soldiers / Barry Ames
- An ethical perspective on child soldiers / Jeff McMahan
- The evolution of the United Nations' protection agenda for children: applying international standards / Tonderai W. Chikuhwa
- No place to hide: refugees, displaced persons, and child soldier recruits / Vera Achvarina, Simon Reich
- Recruiting children for armed conflict / Jens Christopher Andvig, Scott Gates
- The enablers of war: causal factors behind the child soldier phenomenon / P.W. Singer
- Child recruitment in Burma, Sri Lanka, and Nepal / Jo Becker
- Organizing minors: the case of Colombia / Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín
- War, displacement, and the recruitment of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Sarah Kenyon Lischer
- Disaggregating the causal factors unique to child soldiering: the case of Liberia / James B. Pugel
- Girls in armed forces and groups in Angola: implications for ethical research and reintegration / Michael G. Wessells
- National policies to prevent the recruitment of child soldiers / Emily Vargas-Barón
- Wise investments in future neighbors: recruitment deterrence, human agency, and education / Maureen W. McClure, Gonzalo Retamal
- Ending the scourge of child soldiering: an indirect approach / Andrew Mack
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Current global estimates of children engaged in warfare range from 200,000 to 300,000. Children's roles in conflict range from armed and active participants to spies, cooks, messengers, and sex slaves. Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States examines the factors that contribute to the use of children in war, the effects of war upon children, and the perpetual cycle of warfare that engulfs many of the world's poorest nations.
The contributors seek to eliminate myths of historic or culture-based violence, and instead look to common traits of chronic poverty and vulnerable populations. Individual essays examine topics such as: the legal and ethical aspects of child soldiering; internal UN debates over enforcement of child protection policies; economic factors; increased access to small arms; displaced populations; resource endowments; forced government conscription; rebel-enforced quota systems; motivational techniques employed in recruiting children; and the role of girls in conflict.
The contributors also offer viable policies to reduce the recruitment of child soldiers such as the protection of refugee camps by outside forces, \u201cnaming and shaming,\u201d and criminal prosecution by international tribunals. Finally, they focus on ways to reintegrate former child soldiers into civil society in the aftermath of war.
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