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by Rachel Brett (Author), Irma Specht (Author)
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  • Paperback: 175 pages
  • Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc,US; illustrated edition edition (30 April 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1588262618
  • ISBN-13: 978-1588262615
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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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, Colombia, 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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2.0 out of 5 stars Severly limited in scope, A supplementary reading rather than a key addition, 7 Aug 2006
By P. Thomas (Wiltshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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This book focuses specifically on adolescent soldiers who define themsleves as having volunteered to fight, a specific aspect of the rising use of child soldiers and an aspect indeed worth studying in order to gain a holisitic view. However the authors have only interviewed 53 such people and rely heavily on a select few of these throughout the text (though occasionally borrowing other researchers interviews). While this gives a very personal feel to those interviewed by understanding their individual accounts it does make sweeping comments along the lines of "such sentiments are found strongly in East Timor and South Africa" sound incredably hollow.

There is also very little additional information to what other studies have provided, listing things such as the presence of war, family, education and poverty as the central influences in the decision to join armed conflict just as others have. The significant difference being that other studies seem to have a wider research pool and do not use the same statements from the same interviews to demonstate different points.

One thing that I particularly disliked about the book is its failure to deal identify the significant differences between conflicts and perceptions of conflicts of those that were volunterring for them. Personally I thought grouping 'Stephen's' (UK) account with 'Andres's' (Columbia) and 'Henri's' (Congo) wihout ever really discussing the rather large differences betweeen the conflict they would potentially be joining; the socities from which they originate and the perceptions of the military in each society a significant failure in achieving the merit which any academic book hopes to gain.

While this book provides some useful information it would not be a text that I would recommend as being critical in gaining an understanding this aspect of modern warfare. It is rather a supplementary reading that could be used for hearing individual accounts of adolescent soldiers.

While this book aims to focus on a speific aspect of child soldiering it fails to provide a more in depth study than other books that deal with volunteers in a more general overview do so. I would recommend Singer's 'Children At War' as being a better choice and then perhaps this if you wished to further reinforce your knowledge on this more specific aspect of the problem.
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