Children at war

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Analyzes the growing use of children as soldiers in global conflicts, explaining how youngsters are recruited and abducted, indoctrinated, trained, and utilized as warriors; how changes in weapons technology and a breakdown of global order have led to the phenomenon; and how Western armies can prepare themselves.

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Full title :Children at war / P.W. Singer.

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Publication Date:©2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Pantheon Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2005.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 269 pages ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0375423494, 9780375423499
oclc:ocm55877924
LC Classification:UB416
Dewey Decimal:355/.0083

Children at war -- Children and war -- It's a small world after all: child soldiers around the globe -- The process and results of child soldiers -- The underlying causes -- How children are recruited into war -- Turning a child into a soldier -- The implications of children on the battlefield -- The new children of terror -- Responding to the child soldier problem -- Preventing child soldiers -- Fighting children -- Turning a soldier back into a child -- Looking ahead.

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89.76 polemology child soldier Child soldiers Child soldiers -- History -- 20th centu… Child soldiers -- History -- 21st centu… Children comentario comment Commentaire Convenio de la ONU convention de l'ONU Derechos del niño developing countries Droits de l'enfant enfant soldat Enfants soldats -- Histoire -- 20e sièc… Enfants soldats -- Histoire -- 21e sièc… girl Guerra Guerre