Child Soldiers in Africa / Alcinda Honwana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Honwana, Alcinda, author.

Series:

The Ethnography of Political Violence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child soldiers--Africa.

Child soldiers.

Children and war--Africa.

Children and war.

Children and violence--Africa.

Children and violence.

Political violence--Africa.

Political violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Young people have been at the forefront of political conflict in many parts of the world, even when it has turned violent. In some of those situations, for a variety of reasons, including coercion, poverty, or the seductive nature of violence, children become killers before they are able to grasp the fundamentals of morality. It has been only in the past ten years that this component of warfare has captured the attention of the world. Images of boys carrying guns and ammunition are now commonplace as they flash across television screens and appear on the front pages of newspapers. Less often, but equally disturbingly, stories of girls pressed into the service of militias surface in the media.A major concern today is how to reverse the damage done to the thousands of children who have become not only victims but also agents of wartime atrocities. In Child Soldiers in Africa, Alcinda Honwana draws on her firsthand experience with children of Angola and Mozambique, as well as her study of the phenomenon for the United Nations and the Social Science Research Council, to shed light on how children are recruited, what they encounter, and how they come to terms with what they have done. Honwana looks at the role of local communities in healing and rebuilding the lives of these children. She also examines the efforts undertaken by international organizations to support these wartime casualties and enlightens the reader on the obstacles faced by such organizations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Civil Wars in Mozambique and Angola

2. Historical and Social Contexts

3. Recruitment and Initiation

4. Young Women

5. Healing Child Soldiers and Their Communities

6. Looking to the Future and Learning from the Past

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9786613212276

9781283212274

1283212277

9780812204773

0812204778

OCLC:

759158223