Child soldiers : the role of children in armed conflict / Ilene Cohn & Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
- Bib ID:
- 404099
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cohn, Ilene
- Description:
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994
- 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0198259352
- 0198259328 (paperback)
- Summary:
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In this path-breaking study, Professor Goodwin-Gill and Dr Cohn assess the status of the Child Soldier in international law and highlight the ways in which international humanitarian law fails to provide effective protection, particularly in the internal conflicts which are the most common battlefields today. Based upon empirical data gathered from places of conflict all over the world, the authors examine the consequences for child soldiers, their families and communities, of their participation in armed conflict. They conclude their study with practical suggestions for preventing recruitment, and call for a more coherent policy of treatment for those children who have participated in acts of violence.
- Full contents:
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- Ch. 1. Introduction & Background
- Ch. 2. The Child Soldier: Why Children Participate in Armed Conflict
- Ch. 3. Preventing the Recruitment or Participation of Children and Youth in Armed Conflict: Law, Programmes, & Policy
- Ch. 4. Conditions & Consequences of Participation
- Ch. 5. Responding to the Consequences of Participation: Law, Programmes & Policy
- Ch. 6. Developing the Protection of Child Soldiers: The Uses of Law & Process
- Ch. 7. Findings & Recommendations
- Annex: Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child - International Humanitarian Law & Human Rights Instruments - Voting Age & Military Age by Country.
- Notes:
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- "A study for the Henry Dunant Institute, Geneva."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-220) and index.
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