Alpaslan Özerdem, Sukanya Podder

Child Soldiers: From Recruitment to Reintegration (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 325
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230342927
• Artikelnr.: 44929833

Autorenporträt

DILLI RAJ BINADI Development Worker in the Area of Child Protection, Nepal NEIL BOOTHBY Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health and Director for the Program on Forced Migration and Health at Columbia University, USA RYAN BURGESS Education Consultant with the Inter-American Development Bank based in Trinidad and Tobago MYRIAM DENOV Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at McGill University, USA PRATISHA DEWAN Development Worker in the Area of Child Protection in Nepal SCOTT GATES Research Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) at International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Norway, and Professor of Political Science, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU) PATRICK HALTON Child Protection Specialist for UNICEF based in Manila, Philippines WENCHE HAUGE Senior Researcher at International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Norway JARAMEY MCMULLIN Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK KRIJN PETERS Rural Development Sociologist at the Centre for Development Studies, Swansea University, UK MATS UTAS Associate Professor at the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities LOTTE VERMEIJ Ph.D. Candidate at Disaster Studies at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and an affiliate of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) STEVEN A. ZYCK NATO office in Virginia, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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 & 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 or Reintegration: 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 PART V Mapping Child Soldier Reintegration Outcomes: Exploring the Linkages; A.Özerdem & S.Podder

Rezensionen

'...a valuable volume that poses the difficult questions.' - Intervention Journal