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

Other author Özerdem, Alpaslan.
Other author Podder, Sukanya.
Format Book
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Descriptionxxi, 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Subjects
Child soldiers.
Child soldiers--Rehabilitation.
Children and war.

Contents The long road home: conceptual debates on recruitment experiences and reintegration outcomes / Alpaslan Özerdem and Sukanya Podder -- Why do children fight? Motivations and the mode of recruitment / Scott Gates -- Child soldier recruitment in the Liberian civil wars: individual motivations and rebel group tactics / Sukanya Podder -- Group cohesion and coercive recruitment: young combatants and the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone / Krijn Peters -- Girl soldiers in Guatemala / Wenche Hauge -- Resilience amidst risks for recruitment: a case study of 'at risk' children in Colombia / Ryan Burgess -- How voluntary? The role of community in youth participation in Muslim Mindanao / Alpaslam Özerdem and Sukanya Podder -- Neither child nor soldier: contested terrains in identity, victimcy and survival / Sukanya Podder -- '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 -- Socialization and reintegration challenges: a case study of the Lord's Resistance Army / Lotte Vermeij -- Social navigation and power in post-conflict Sierra Leone: reflections from a former child soldier turned bike rider / Myriam Denov -- Victimcy as social navigation: from the toolbox of Liberian child soldiers / Mats Utas -- Mozambique life outcome study: how did child soldiers turn out as adults? / Neil Boothby -- Exclusion or reintegration: child soldiers in Angola / Jaremey R. McMullin -- Child soldier reintegration in Sudan: a practitioner's field experience / Patrick Halton -- Reintegration of child soldiers in Nepal: grassroots reflections / Dilli Raj Binandi and Pratisha Dewan Binadi -- Mapping child soldier reintegration outcomes: exploring the linkages / Alpaslam Özerdem and Sukanya Podder.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011021116
ISBN9780230241961 (hardback)
ISBN0230241964 (hardback)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks UB418.C45 C38 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold