LEADER 03547nam 22006614a 450 001 9910783791503321 005 20230617035824.0 010 $a1-280-36094-1 010 $a9786610360949 010 $a0-8135-3783-5 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813537832 035 $a(CKB)1000000000246472 035 $a(EBL)979575 035 $a(OCoLC)804665108 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000105612 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11129280 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000105612 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10106705 035 $a(PQKB)10147442 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC979575 035 $a(OCoLC)62215830 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21363 035 $a(DE-B1597)529295 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813537832 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL979575 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10091287 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000246472 100 $a20040716d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aArmies of the young$b[electronic resource] $echild soldiers in war and terrorism /$fDavid M. Rosen 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (216 p.) 225 1 $aThe Rutgers series in childhood studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-3567-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 185-191) and index. 327 $aWar and childhood -- Fighting for their lives -- Fighting for diamonds -- Fighting for the apocalypse -- The politics of age. 330 $aChildren have served as soldiers throughout history. They fought in the American Revolution, the Civil War, and in both world wars. They served as uniformed soldiers, camouflaged insurgents, and even suicide bombers. Indeed, the first U.S. soldier to be killed by hostile fire in the Afghanistan war was shot in ambush by a fourteen-year-old boy. Does this mean that child soldiers are aggressors? Or are they victims? It is a difficult question with no obvious answer, yet in recent years the acceptable answer among humanitarian organizations and contemporary scholars has been resoundingly the latter. These children are most often seen as especially hideous examples of adult criminal exploitation. In this provocative book, David M. Rosen argues that this response vastly oversimplifies the child soldier problem. Drawing on three dramatic examples-from Sierra Leone, Palestine, and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust-Rosen vividly illustrates this controversial view. In each case, he shows that children are not always passive victims, but often make the rational decision that not fighting is worse than fighting. With a critical eye to international law, Armies of the Young urges readers to reconsider the situation of child combatants in light of circumstance and history before adopting uninformed child protectionist views. In the process, Rosen paints a memorable and unsettling picture of the role of children in international conflicts. 410 0$aRutgers series in childhood studies. 606 $aChild soldiers 606 $aWorld politics$y20th century 606 $aWorld politics$y1989- 615 0$aChild soldiers. 615 0$aWorld politics 615 0$aWorld politics 676 $a355/.0083 700 $aRosen$b David M.$f1944-$01485833 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783791503321 996 $aArmies of the young$93705112 997 $aUNINA