Child Soldiers: From Recruitment to Reintegration

Abstract

PART I The Long Road Home: Conceptual Debates on Recruitment Experiences and Reintegration Outcomes A.Ozerdem & 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. Ozerdem & 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.Ozerdem & S.Podder