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001 2005056891
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005 20100810090140.0
008 060728s2006 caua b 001 0 eng
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100 1 $aSinger, P. W.$q(Peter Warren)
245 10 $aChildren at war /$cP.W. Singer.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$c2006.
300 $axii, 264 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-253) and index.
505 0 $aChildren at war -- It's a small world after all : child soldiers around the globe -- 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 -- Preventing child soldiers -- Fighting children -- Turning a soldier back into a child -- Looking ahead -- Appendix : Optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict.
520 $aThis is the first comprehensive look at the use of children in contemporary warfare. From U.S. soldiers having to fight children in Afghanistan and Iraq to juvenile terrorists in Sri Lanka to Palestine, the new, younger face of battle is a terrible reality of 21st century warfare. Indeed, the very first American soldier killed by hostile fire in the "War on Terrorism" was shot by a fourteen-year-old Afghan boy. Children at War is the first comprehensive examination of a disturbing and escalating phenomenon: The use of children as soldiers around the globe. Interweaving explanatory narrative with the voices of child soldiers themselves, P.W. Singer, an internationally recognized expert in modern warfare, introduces the brutal reality of conflict, where children are sent off to fight in war-torn hotspots from Colombia and the Sudan to Kashmir and Sierra Leone. He explores the evolution of this phenomenon, how and why children are recruited, indoctrinated, trained, and converted to soldiers and then lays out the consequences for global security, with a special case study on terrorism. With this established, he lays out the responses that can end this horrible practice. What emerges is not only a compelling and clarifying read on the darker reality of modern warfare, but also a clear and urgent call for action.
650 0 $aChild soldiers$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aChild soldiers$xHistory$y21st century.
650 0 $aWorld politics$y21st century.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0608/20505681-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0609/20505681-b.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0641/20505681-t.html