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Young Soldiers : Why They Choose to Fight, Hardback Book

Young Soldiers : Why They Choose to Fight Hardback

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They are part of rebel factions, national armies, paramilitaries, and other armed groups and entrenched in some of the most violent conflicts around the globe.

They are in some ways still children - yet, from Afghanistan to Sierra Leone to Northern Ireland, you can find them among the fighters.

Why? Young Soldiers explores the reasons that adolescents who are neither physically forced nor abducted choose to join armed groups.

Drawing on in-depth interviews with the soldiers themselves, the authors challenge conventional wisdom to offer a thought-provoking account of the role that war, poverty, education, politics, identity, family, and friends all play in driving these young men and women to join military life.

They also address the important issues of demobilization and the reintegration process.

International in scope, covering a variety of situations in Afghanistan, Columbia, Congo-Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom, Young Soldiers concludes with a discussion of the steps needed to create an environment in which adolescents are no longer ""forced"" to volunteer.

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