Child Soldiers From Violence to Protection

Name: Child Soldiers From Violence to Protection
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ISBN: 9780674032552

ISBN-10: 0674032551

ISBN-13: 9780674032552

Edition: 2006

Authors: Michael Wessells

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Compelling and humane, this book reveals the lives of the 300,000 child soldiers around the world, challenging stereotypes of them as predators or a lost generation. Kidnapped or lured by the promise of food, protection, revenge, or a better life, children serve not only as combatants but as porters, spies, human land mine detectors, and sexual slaves. Nearly one-third are girls, and Michael Wessells movingly reveals the particular dangers they face from pregnancy, childbirth complications, and the rejection they and their babies encounter in their local contexts.Based mainly on participatory research and interviews with hundreds of former child soldiers worldwide, Wessells allows these…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Michael Wessells is an experienced child protection practitioner with Christian Children's Fund and Professor at Columbia University and Randolph-Macon College.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations



Child Victims, Young Combatants



Entry into Armed Groups



Inside Armed Groups



Girl Soldiers



Health and HIV/AIDS



The Invisible Wounds of War



Putting Down the Gun



The Transition to Civilian Life



Community Reconciliation, Justice, and Protection



Prevention


References


Index