Child Soldiers: From Recruitment to Reintegration

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Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Long Road Home: Conceptual Debates on Recruitment Experiences and Reintegration Outcomes....Pages 3-26
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Why Do Children Fight? Motivations and the Mode of Recruitment....Pages 29-49
Child Soldier Recruitment in the Liberian Civil Wars: Individual Motivations and Rebel Group Tactics....Pages 50-75
Group Cohesion and Coercive Recruitment: Young Combatants and the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone....Pages 76-90
Girl Soldiers in Guatemala....Pages 91-103
Resilience Amidst Risks for Recruitment: A Case Study of ‘At Risk’ Children in Colombia....Pages 104-121
How Voluntary? The Role of Community in Youth Participation in Muslim Mindanao....Pages 122-138
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Neither Child nor Soldier: Contested Terrains in Identity, Victimcy and Survival....Pages 141-156
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‘But I’m a Man’: The Imposition of Childhood on and Denial of Identity and Economic Opportunity to Afghanistan’s Child Soldiers....Pages 159-172
Socialization and Reintegration Challenges: A Case Study of the Lord’s Resistance Army....Pages 173-187
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Social Navigation and Power in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone: Reflections from a Former Child Soldier Turned Bike Rider....Pages 191-212
Victimcy as Social Navigation: From the Toolbox of Liberian Child Soldiers....Pages 213-228
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Mozambique Life Outcome Study: How Did Child Soldiers Turn Out as Adults?....Pages 231-245
Exclusion or Reintegration: Child Soldiers in Angola....Pages 246-266
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Child Soldier Reintegration in Sudan: A Practitioner’s Field Experience....Pages 269-283
Reintegration of Child Soldiers in Nepal: Grassroots Reflections....Pages 284-305
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Mapping Child Soldier Reintegration Outcomes: Exploring the Linkages....Pages 309-322
Back Matter....Pages 323-325