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100 1  Rosen, David M.,|d1944- 
245 10 Armies of the young :|bchild soldiers in war and terrorism
       /|cDavid M. Rosen. 
264  1 New Brunswick, N.J. :|bRutgers University Press,|c[2005] 
264  4 |c©2005 
300    xi, 199 pages ;|c24 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
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490 1  The Rutgers series in childhood studies 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-191) and 
       index. 
505 0  War and childhood -- Fighting for their lives : Jewish 
       child soldiers of World War II -- Fighting for diamonds : 
       the child soldiers of Sierra Leone -- Fighting for the 
       apocalypse : Palestinian child soldiers -- The politics of
       age. 
520 8  Annotation|bChildren 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. 
650  0 Child soldiers. 
650  0 World politics|y20th century. 
650  0 World politics|y1989- 
830  0 Rutgers series in childhood studies. 
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