Child soldiers : from recruitment to reintegration / edited by Alpaslam Özerdem, Sukanya Podder.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Özerdem, Alpaslan

Podder, Sukanya.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child soldiers.

Child soldiers--Rehabilitation.

Children and war.

Rehabilitation.

Physical Description:

xxi, 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

This volume explains the processes involved in young people's participation in civil conflict. It seeks to define the course of children's lives in war zones and highlights the connections and impacts of recruitment, socialization, training and indoctrination in rebel groups. The authors show how immersion into the fighter's world is a disjuncture in the 'normal' pre-war life of children and how this influences post conflict return and reintegration. One of the key lessons drawn is the need to undermine stereotypes and give young people a voice to articulate their compulsions, motivations and choices. Moreover, the contributors point out the importance of breaking the exclusive division between child/adult and combatant/civilian identities. While issues of recruitment have received considerable academic attention of late, this contribution is one of the first to take into account the processes and interconnections leading to a successful reintegration and transition to civilian identity. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I

The Long Road Home: Conceptual Debates on Recruitment Experiences and Reintegration Outcomes / A.Özerdem, S. Podder

Part II

Why Do Children Fight? Motivations and the Mode of Recruitment / S. Gates

Child Soldier Recruitment in the Liberian Civil Wars: Individual Motivations and Rebel Group Tactics / S. Podder

Group Cohesion and Coercive Recruitment: Young combatants and the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone / K. Peters

Girl Soldiers in Guatemala / W. Hauge

Resilience Amidst Risks for Recruitment: A Case Study of 'At Risk' Children in Colombia / R. Burgess

How Voluntary: Community and Youth Participation in Muslim Mindanao / A. Özerdem Özerdem, A., S. Podder

Part III

Neither Child nor Soldier: Contested Terrains in Identity, Victimcy and Survival / S. Podder

But I Am a Man! Imposition of Childhood and Denial of Identity, Economic Opportunity for Youth Combatants in Afghanistan / S. Zyck

In Group Socialization and Reintegration Challenges: A Study of the Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda / L. Vermeij

Social Navigation and Power in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone: Reflections from a Former Child Soldier Turned Bike Rider / M. Denov

Victimcy as Social Navigation: From the Toolbox of a Liberian Child Soldier / M. Utas

Mozambique Life Outcome Study: How Did Child Soldiers Turn-Out as Adults? / N. Boothby

Exclusion and Survival: Reintegration of Child Soldiers in Angola / J. McMullin

Part IV

Child Soldier Reintegration in Sudan: A Practitioner's Field Experience / P. Halton

Reintegration of Child Soldiers in Nepal: Grassroots Reflections / D. Raj, P. Dewan Binadi Binadi, P. Dewan

Part V

Mapping Child Soldier Reintegration Outcomes: Exploring the Linkages / A.Özerdem, S. Podder.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230241961

0230241964

OCLC:

713185468