Child soldiers
Subtitle: from recruitment to reintegration
By: edited by Alpaslam Özerdem, Sukanya Podder
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780230241961
Subjects: Children and war; Child soldiers; Rehabilitation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The long road home: conceptual debates on recruitment experiences and reintegration outcomes / Alpaslan Özerdem and Sukanya Podder; title: Why do children fight? Motivations and the mode of recruitment / Scott Gates; title: Child soldier recruitment in the Liberian civil wars: individual motivations and rebel group tactics / Sukanya Podder; title: Group cohesion and coercive recruitment: young combatants and the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone / Krijn Peters; title: Girl soldiers in Guatemala / Wenche Hauge; title: Resilience amidst risks for recruitment: a case study of 'at risk' children in Colombia / Ryan Burgess; title: How voluntary? The role of community in youth participation in Muslim Mindanao / Alpaslam Özerdem and Sukanya Podder; title: Neither child nor soldier: contested terrains in identity, victimcy and survival / Sukanya Podder; title: 'But I'm a man': The imposition of childhood on and denial of identity and economic opportunity to Afghanistan's child soldiers / Steven A. Zyck; title: Socialization and reintegration challenges: a case study of the Lord's Resistance Army / Lotte Vermeij; title: Social navigation and power in post-conflict Sierra Leone: reflections from a former child soldier turned bike rider / Myriam Denov; title: Victimcy as social navigation: from the toolbox of Liberian child soldiers / Mats Utas; title: Mozambique life outcome study: how did child soldiers turn out as adults? / Neil Boothby; title: Exclusion or reintegration: child soldiers in Angola / Jaremey R. McMullin; title: Child soldier reintegration in Sudan: a practitioner's field experience / Patrick Halton; title: Reintegration of child soldiers in Nepal: grassroots reflections / Dilli Raj Binandi and Pratisha Dewan Binadi; title: Mapping child soldier reintegration outcomes: exploring the linkages / Alpaslam Özerdem and Sukanya Podder.