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Children and armed conflict: looking at the future and learning from the past

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  • Roos Haer

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Children are currently being recruited to an increasing extent by armed groups, assuming both ancillary and combat roles. Academic research on this phenomenon has grown in scope over the last few years. However, the current research lacks a comparative perspective. As a result, we presently have a very restricted perspective of the state of the art on the subject of child soldiering, making it difficult to recognise research areas that urgently require further investigation. The ambition of this article is twofold: first, to explore the existing state of child soldier studies across disciplines, and second, to encourage potential research by highlighting three relatively underdeveloped research areas.

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  • Roos Haer, 2019. "Children and armed conflict: looking at the future and learning from the past," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(1), pages 74-91, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:40:y:2019:i:1:p:74-91
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2018.1552131
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    1. Polyxeni Kechagia & Theodore Metaxas, 2021. "Are Working Children in Developing Countries Hidden Victims of Pandemics?," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-18, August.
    2. Angharad Smith & Monti Narayan Datta & Kevin Bales, 2023. "Contemporary slavery in armed conflict: Introducing the CSAC dataset, 1989–2016," Journal of Peace Research, Peace Research Institute Oslo, vol. 60(2), pages 362-372, March.

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