Child Soldiers in Colombia: The Recruitment of Children into Non-State Violent Armed Groups

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingunn Bjørkhaug
Keyword(s):  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Armed Groups

scholarly journals Growing up in armed groups: trauma and aggression among child soldiers in DR Congo

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 21408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharin Hermenau ◽  
Tobias Hecker ◽  
Anna Maedl ◽  
Maggie Schauer ◽  
Thomas Elbert
Keyword(s):  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Dr Congo

scholarly journals Recruitment of child soldiers in Nepal: Mental health status and risk factors for voluntary participation of youth in armed groups.

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon A. Kohrt ◽  
Minyoung Yang ◽  
Sauharda Rai ◽  
Anvita Bhardwaj ◽  
Wietse A. Tol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Mental Health Status ◽  
Voluntary Participation ◽  
Armed Groups

scholarly journals Vécu Des Enfants Soldats Pendant La Guerre: Une Analyse À Partir Des Projets De l’Organisation Non Gouvernemental Caritas Makeni En Sierra Léone

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 256
Author(s):  
Gnamien Yawa Ossi
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Child Soldier ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Social Reintegration ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

The phenomenon of «child soldier» has become very rampant these last years. In Africa, they are very common in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in Chad, in Uganda, in Sierra Leone, and in Côte d’Ivoire. More recently, they are in Mali and in the Central African Republic. However, armed conflicts have imposed various situations on populations. The children are the main victims. The focus of this study is on child soldiers during times of war. The main objective of this study is to analyze the ways they join the armed groups and the difficulties of their social reintegration. The objective of this study is to analyze the recruitment conditions of children and the difficulties of social reintegration. The hypothesis postulates that there is a link between the passage of the children in armed groups and their psychosocial outcome. The study took place in Sierra Leone. The quantitative and qualitative methods were used. The results of the study show that: the mode of recruitment of children has an influence on their social reintegration. Also, the violent practices in armed conflicts are obstacles to their social reintegration.

scholarly journals TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE: THE REINTEGRATION OF CHILD SOLDIERS THROUGH POST-CONFLICT METHODS OF JUSTICE

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 474
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Made In

<p>This paper examines the problematic of child soldiers, based on inter alia the strategy of research <br />and study of the United Nations Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for <br />Children and Armed Conflict and on the priorities of the Machel Study. Here, national and international <br />law will be applied on countries where children are recruited by armed groups. Concerning domestic <br />jurisdiction alternative or traditional methods of justice as well as formal legal methods will be <br />addressed. Specifically, this paper will focus on three main subjects: 1) the possibility of prosecution <br />and judgment of adolescents, who participated in armed conflicts; 2) prosecution and judgment of war lords <br />and 3) civil reparation proportional to the damage caused by an armed conflict. These three subjects will <br />be construed according to (traditional or alternative and formal) national and international law. Finally, <br />some recommendations will be made in order to improve the system of reintegration of child soldiers in <br />post-conflict countries.</p>

scholarly journals Child soldiers in Colombia: Five views

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Alberto Carmona Parra ◽  
Florentino Moreno Martín ◽  
John Felipe Tobón Hoyos
Keyword(s):  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
Three Samples

This paper offers explanations of the meanings that push children to illegally armed groups in Colombia from the testimony of 21 demobilized young girls from the region of Antioquia (Colombia). The girls’ answers are placed on a typology of explanations drawn from academic reports, and compared to three samples of attributions of students, teachers and policemen of their same region. The visions “idealizing” and “criminalizing” mobilization are practically marginal in all samples. The dominant vision among the girls is called “self-assertive”. From the rest of the samples, as well as for the experts, the majority of the views are “victimizing”.

scholarly journals Rebel funding and child soldiers: Exploring the relationship between natural resources and forcible recruitment

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 236-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roos Haer ◽  
Christopher Michael Faulkner ◽  
Beth Elise Whitaker
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Recruitment Strategy ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Abusive Behavior ◽  
Rebel Groups ◽  
Revenue Streams ◽  
Lootable Resources ◽  
The Relationship

Why do some rebel groups forcibly recruit children while others largely refrain from using this strategy? We argue that it depends, in part, on their ability to profit from natural resources. Rebel groups that earn funding from natural resources have less incentive to restrain abusive behavior such as the forced recruitment of children and more incentive to tolerate and even promote this recruitment strategy. To test our expectations, we collected new data on the level of forcible recruitment of children by rebel groups. This is distinct from the broader use of child soldiers, a significant portion of whom volunteer to join armed groups. We combined the information on forced recruitment with a recent data set on rebel groups’ exploitation of natural resources. Our analyses show that rebel groups that profit from natural resources are significantly more likely to forcibly recruit children than groups that do not exploit natural resources. Looking at specific characteristics, rebels that extract lootable resources are more likely to engage in the forced recruitment of children than groups that profit only from non-lootable resources or from no natural resources at all. The findings have important implications for our understanding of the relationship between rebels’ revenue streams and their engagement in human rights violations.

Coping with the trauma of war: Former child soldiers in post-conflict Sierra Leone

2010 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 791-806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myriam Denov
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
After Effects ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Former Child Soldiers ◽  
Depth Interviews

Children across the globe have been implicated in armed conflict as both victims and participants. During Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war, thousands of children, both boys and girls, participated directly in armed conflict or were recruited for labour or sexual exploitation in armed groups. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 80 children formerly associated with Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front, this paper explores children’s experiences of violence during the armed conflict, traces the realities that children faced in the aftermath of the war, and examines the ways in which participants attempted to cope with the war’s profound after-effects. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications for social work.

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