Child Soldiers: From Recruitment to Reintegration

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Long Road Home: Conceptual Debates on Recruitment Experiences and Reintegration Outcomes

      • Alpaslan Özerdem, Sukanya Podder

      Pages 3-26

3. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Why Do Children Fight? Motivations and the Mode of Recruitment

      • Scott Gates

      Pages 29-49

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

      • Sukanya Podder

      Pages 50-75

   4. Group Cohesion and Coercive Recruitment: Young Combatants and the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone

      • Krijn Peters

      Pages 76-90

   5. Girl Soldiers in Guatemala

      • Wenche Hauge

      Pages 91-103

   6. Resilience Amidst Risks for Recruitment: A Case Study of ‘At Risk’ Children in Colombia

      • Ryan Burgess

      Pages 104-121

   7. How Voluntary? The Role of Community in Youth Participation in Muslim Mindanao

      • Alpaslan Özerdem, Sukanya Podder

      Pages 122-138

4. Part III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Neither Child nor Soldier: Contested Terrains in Identity, Victimcy and Survival

      • Sukanya Podder

      Pages 141-156

5. Identity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. ‘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

      Pages 159-172

   3. Socialization and Reintegration Challenges: A Case Study of the Lord’s Resistance Army

      • Lotte Vermeij

      Pages 173-187

6. Victimcy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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

      • Myriam Denov

      Pages 191-212

   3. Victimcy as Social Navigation: From the Toolbox of Liberian Child Soldiers

      • Mats Utas

      Pages 213-228

7. Survival

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229

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   2. Mozambique Life Outcome Study: How Did Child Soldiers Turn Out as Adults?

      • Neil Boothby

      Pages 231-245

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.

• army
• Civil War
• conflict
• desegregation
• Front
• participation
• revolution
• development aid

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

• Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies (CPRS), Coventry University, UK

  Alpaslan Özerdem

• Centre for Security Sector Management, Cranfield University, UK

  Sukanya Podder

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.

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