Child Soldiers: From Recruitment to Reintegration [electronic resource] /
Özerdem, Alpaslan.author.
Podder, Sukanya.author.
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.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Part I; 1 The Long Road Home: Conceptual Debates on Recruitment Experiences and Reintegration Outcomes; Part II; 2 Why Do Children Fight? Motivations and the Mode of Recruitment; 3 Child Soldier Recruitment in the Liberian Civil Wars: Individual Motivations and Rebel Group Tactics; 4 Group Cohesion and Coercive Recruitment: Young Combatants and the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone; 5 Girl Soldiers in Guatemala
6 Resilience Amidst Risks for Recruitment: A Case Study of 'At Risk' Children in Colombia7 How Voluntary? The Role of Community in Youth Participation in Muslim Mindanao; Part III; 8 Neither Child nor Soldier: Contested Terrains in Identity, Victimcy and Survival; Identity; 9 'But I'm a Man': The Imposition of Childhood on and Denial of Identity and Economic Opportunity to Afghanistan's Child Soldiers; 10 Socialization and Reintegration Challenges: A Case Study of the Lord's Resistance Army; Victimcy
11 Social Navigation and Power in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone: Reflections from a Former Child Soldier Turned Bike Rider12 Victimcy as Social Navigation: From the Toolbox of Liberian Child Soldiers; Survival; 13 Mozambique Life Outcome Study: How Did Child Soldiers Turn Out as Adults?; 14 Exclusion or Reintegration: Child Soldiers in Angola; Part IV; 15 Child Soldier Reintegration in Sudan: A Practitioner's Field Experience; 16 Reintegration of Child Soldiers in Nepal: Grassroots Reflections; Part V; 17 Mapping Child Soldier Reintegration Outcomes: Exploring the Linkages; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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