Children at war
This is the first comprehensive look at the use of children in contemporary warfare. From U.S. soldiers having to fight children in Afghanistan and Iraq to juvenile terrorists in Sri Lanka to Palestine, the new, younger face of battle is a terrible reality of 21st century warfare. Indeed, the very f...
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Berkeley ; Los Angeles :
University of California Press
[2006]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Children at war
- It's a small world after all : child soldiers around the globe
- The underlying causes
- How children are recruited into war
- Turning a child into a soldier
- The implications of children on the battlefield
- The new children of terror
- Preventing child soldiers
- Fighting children
- Turning a soldier back into a child
- Looking ahead
- Appendix : Optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict.