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Author | : Peter W. Singer |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2015-03-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1101970057 |
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Children at War is the first comprehensive book to examine the growing and global use of children as soldiers. P.W. Singer, an internationally recognized expert in twenty-first-century warfare, explores how a new strategy of war, utilized by armies and warlords alike, has targeted children, seeking to turn them into soldiers and terrorists. Singer writes about how the first American serviceman killed by hostile fire in Afghanistan—a Green Beret—was shot by a fourteen-year-old Afghan boy; how suspected militants detained by U.S. forces in Iraq included more than one hundred children under the age of seventeen; and how hundreds who were taken hostage in Thailand were held captive by the rebel "God's Army," led by twelve-year-old twins. Interweaving the voices of child soldiers throughout the book, Singer looks at the ways these children are recruited, abducted, trained, and finally sent off to fight in war-torn hot spots, from Colombia and the Sudan to Kashmir and Sierra Leone. He writes about children who have been indoctrinated to fight U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan; of Iraqui boys between the ages of ten and fifteen who had been trained in military arms and tactics to become Saddam Hussein's Ashbal Saddam (Lion Cubs); of young refugees from Pakistani madrassahs who were recruited to help bring the Taliban to power in the Afghan civil war. The author, National Security Fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of the Brookings Project on U.S. Policy Towards the Islamic World, explores how this phenomenon has come about, and how social disruptions and failures of development in modern Third World nations have led to greater global conflict and an instability that has spawned a new pool of recruits. He writes about how technology has made today's weapons smaller and lighter and therefore easier for children to carry and handle; how one billion people in the world live in developing countries where civil war is part of everyday life; and how some children—without food, clothing, or family—have volunteered as soldiers as their only way to survive. Finally, Singer makes clear how the U.S. government and the international community must face this new reality of modern warfare, how those who benefit from the recruitment of children as soldiers must be held accountable, how Western militaries must be prepared to face children in battle, and how rehabilitation programs can undo this horrific phenomenon and turn child soldiers back into children.
Author | : Le Ly Hayslip |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2011-04-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307790576 |
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The inspiring story of an immigrant's struggles to heal old wounds in the United States, this is the sequel to When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, Le Ly Hayslip's extraordinary, award-winning memoir of life in wartime Vietnam.
Author | : Deborah Ellis |
Publisher | : Groundwood Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0888999070 |
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Provides interviews with twenty-three young Iraqi children who have moved away from their homeland and tells of their fears, challenges, and struggles to rebuild their lives in foreign lands as refugees of war.
Author | : Anita Lobel |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-09-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780613285902 |
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Relates the popular children's book author's early life spent in hiding and in concentration camps in Poland.
Author | : Genny Lim |
Publisher | : Dennis Kawaharada |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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"A deeply moving and affirming work of acceptance and resistance. The poems unfold out of the tragic death of Lim's nineteen-year-old daughter, Danielle, and expand into the perpetually war-torn world of crisis and uncertainty. This is a rich gathering of sorrow, joy, and affirmation." --David Meltzer, author of San Francisco Beat: Talking with Poets
Author | : Itoro Bassey |
Publisher | : Malarkey Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2022-01-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781087991474 |
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Faith is a poignant conversation between the dead and the living, the past and the present, and a young woman grappling to find her place in it all.
Author | : Ben Chirasha |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Zimbabwe |
ISBN | : 9780869257197 |
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Author | : Grazia Prontera |
Publisher | : Helion |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781911096917 |
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The amount of international research on 'Children and War' carried out by academics, governments and non-governmental organizations has continually increased in recent years. At the same time there has been growing public interest in how children experience military conflicts and how their lives have been affected by war and its aftermath. In light of the many brutal post-colonialist civil wars or 'new wars', especially in Africa and Asia, child soldiers have in particular gained increased attention. Simultaneously, since the 1990s, the history of the Holocaust and World War II has also increasingly been written from the perspective of children; those who speak out now and publish their memoirs experienced the Holocaust as children. A similar generational change has also taken place in the societies of the perpetrators: Germans and Austrians who experienced the war as children took over the role of war witnesses from the soldiers of the German Wehrmacht. Moreover, intensified focus on children's experiences and their strategies for dealing with what they went through is evident in Eastern Europe as well. In Children and War: Past and Present Volume II scholars from different academic disciplines, practitioners in the field, and representatives of government and non-governmental institutions present a further selection of studies in this sensitive subject from different angles and in various methodological ways. A number of studies investigate the difficult areas of recovery and reintegration both of child soldiers specifically, and children affected by armed conflict. Further sections examine Victims and Witnesses, Public Discourse and Education and World War II and the Second Generation.
Author | : Jennifer Armstrong |
Publisher | : Laurel Leaf |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307433749 |
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As bullets ring and bombs are dropped, children watch—mostly from the sidelines, but occasionally in the direct line of fire. Unaware of the political issues or power struggles behind the battle, all they know are the human, emotional consequences of this thing called war. This collection examines all of war’s implications for young people—from those caught in the line of fire to the children of the veterans of wars long past. Critically acclaimed author Jennifer Armstrong brings together 12 powerful voices in young people's literature to explore the realities of war from a child's perspective. The settings vary widely—the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, an attempted coup in Venezuela, the American Civil War, crisis in the Middle East—but the effects are largely the same. In war, no life is ever left untouched. In war, lives are shattered.
Author | : Emmanuel Jal |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2009-02-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0312383223 |
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This extraordinary memoir tells the true story of a former child soldier, who survived and escaped a violent life to become Africa's number-one hip-hop artist and an international ambassador for children in war-torn countries.