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Child Soldiers
Description:
The
research area concerning child soldiers focuses on the use of children in
armed conflict. It strives to document why and how children become
soldiers, how war affects children, and how to reintegrate child soldiers
back into society once they have been removed from conflict zones.
Basic Sources:
Putting
Children First: Building an International Framework for International Action
to Address the Impact of Small Arms on Children
Coalition
to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
Young
Soldiers: Why They Choose to Fight (to be published July, 2004)
In Depth Research:
Bowers Andrews, Arlene & Hevener Kaufman, Natalie (eds.). Implementing
the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. A Standard of Living
Adequate for Development. Praeger: Connecticut, 1999.
Brett, Rachel & McCallin, Margaret. Children: The Invisible Soldiers. Sweden: Rädda Barnen, 1998.
Brett, Rachel. Why do
adolescent volunteer for armed forces or armed groups? Paper for
Spanish Red Cross International Conference “Adding Colour to
Peace” (Valencia, Spain 5-7 November 2003).
Defense Monitor. Volume XXVI, Number 4. July 1997. “The Invisible Soldiers: Child
Combatants.”
Dowdney, Luke, Children
and Youth of Organized Armed Violence (Rio de Janeiro: Viveiros de Castro Editora Ltda.).
Goodwin-Gil, Guy
& Cohn, Ilene. Child
Soldiers: The Role of Children in Armed Conflicts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
Himes, James R. (Ed.) Implementing
the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Resource Mobilization in
Low-Income Countries. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995.
Machel, Graca. Promotion
and Protection of the Rights of Children: Impact of armed conflict on
children. UN Document A/51/306, 26 August 1996.
LeBlanc, Lawrence J. The
Convention on the Rights of the Child. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
Machel, Graça. The
Impact of War on Children. London: Hurst & Company, 2001.
Mower, A. Glenn Jr. The
Convention on the Rights of the Child. International Law Support for
Children. Greenwood Press: Westport, 1997.
UNICEF, Impact of
Armed Conflict on Children. London: UNICEF, 2001.
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