Armies of the Young : : Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism / / David M. Rosen.
Children have served as soldiers throughout history. They fought in the American Revolution, the Civil War, and in both world wars. They served as uniformed soldiers, camouflaged insurgents, and even suicide bombers. Indeed, the first U.S. soldier to be killed by hostile fire in the Afghanistan war...
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Rosen, David M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Armies of the Young : Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism / David M. Rosen. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2005] ©2005 1 online resource (216 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. War and Childhood -- Chapter 2. Fighting for Their Lives: Jewish Child Soldiers of World War II -- Chapter 3. Fighting for Diamonds: The Child Soldiers of Sierra Leone -- Chapter 4. Fighting for the Apocalypse: Palestinian Child Soldiers -- Chapter 5. The Politics of Age -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Children have served as soldiers throughout history. They fought in the American Revolution, the Civil War, and in both world wars. They served as uniformed soldiers, camouflaged insurgents, and even suicide bombers. Indeed, the first U.S. soldier to be killed by hostile fire in the Afghanistan war was shot in ambush by a fourteen-year-old boy. Does this mean that child soldiers are aggressors? Or are they victims? It is a difficult question with no obvious answer, yet in recent years the acceptable answer among humanitarian organizations and contemporary scholars has been resoundingly the latter. These children are most often seen as especially hideous examples of adult criminal exploitation. In this provocative book, David M. Rosen argues that this response vastly oversimplifies the child soldier problem. Drawing on three dramatic examples-from Sierra Leone, Palestine, and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust-Rosen vividly illustrates this controversial view. In each case, he shows that children are not always passive victims, but often make the rational decision that not fighting is worse than fighting. With a critical eye to international law, Armies of the Young urges readers to reconsider the situation of child combatants in light of circumstance and history before adopting uninformed child protectionist views. In the process, Rosen paints a memorable and unsettling picture of the role of children in international conflicts. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Child soldiers. World politics 1989-. World politics 20th century. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110688610 print 9780813535678 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813537832 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813537832 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780813537832.jpg |
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