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Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies) (Paperback)

by David M. Rosen (Author)
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  • Paperback: 216 pages
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press (30 April 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0813535689
  • ISBN-13: 978-0813535685
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 619,289 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"No thinking person, no media commentator, no political leader can afford to be without this book - not if they care about the truth and want to understand one of the more awful realities of our time. It will stir you to action on behalf of the world's vulnerable children." - Phyllis Chesler, author of The New-Anti-Semitism"


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Children have served as soldiers throughout history. They fought in the American Revolution, the Civil War, and in both World Wars. They served as uniformed soldiers, camouflaged insurgents, and even suicide bombers. Indeed, the first U.S. soldier to be killed by hostile fire in the Afghanistan war was shot in ambush by a fourteen-year-old boy. Does this mean that child soldiers are aggressors? Or victims? It is a difficult question with no obvious answer, yet in recent years the acceptable answer among humanitarian organizations and contemporary scholars has been resoundingly the latter. These children are most often seen as especially hideous examples of adult criminal exploitation. In this provocative book, David M. Rosen argues that this response vastly oversimplifies the child soldier problem. Drawing on three dramatic examples - from Sierra Leone, Palestine, and Jewish partisans of Eastern Europe during the Holocaust - Rosen vividly illustrates this controversial view. In each case, he shows how children are not always passive victims, but often make rational decisions that the one thing worse than fighting is not fighting. Historically, most children became soldiers because it was the only way possible to save themselves. With a critical eye to international law, Armies of the Young urges readers to reconsider the situation of child combatants in light of circumstance and history before adopting uninformed child protectionist views. In the process, Rosen paints a memorable and unsettling picture of the role of children in international conflicts.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Challenging, illuminating and sensitive, 15 Mar 2008
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Although published by an academic press, I found this book to be extremely readable and interesting. It made me think about the issue of 'child' soldiers in a much less black-and-white way.

Rosen's thesis is that child soldiers are not a new phenomenon; in fact the word 'infantry' emerged in the 1500s, and is derived from the word 'infant'. It meant boy-soldier. Rosen also argues that child soldiers are not necessarily the innocent victims of exploitation. He shows that children often decide whether to fight or not in much the same way that adults do. He questions the romantic myth of the innocence of childhood and instead he sees children as independent players who typically make what they consider to be the best choice given the circumstances. He shows that in each conflict the decisions of children are based on specific (and therefore unique) circumstances.

He examines three case studies (1) Jewish Child Soldiers of World War II; (2) The Child Soldiers of Sierra Leon; and (3) Palistinian Child Soldiers. The difference between each case study was fascinating and illuminative.

Rosen's aproach derives from his training as an anthropologist: he explores what children and youths THEMSELVES think and experience and he cuts through the sentimental and romaticised gloss that we tend to bring to this issue.

Having read this book I have had to let go of many of my over-simplistic, and over-generalised ideas about child soldiers and I now realise that it is far more complex than I had imagined.
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