FACING CHILD SOLDIERS, MORAL ISSUES, AND “REAL SOLDIERING”: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PROFESSIONAL ARMED FORCES*

dc.creator	Eyal Ben-Ari
dc.date	2011-08-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:08:48Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:08:48Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/37-1-57
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/9721740b10b745ccb12164025ac39324
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/8478
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/9721740b10b745ccb12164025ac39324
dc.description	In today’s world, adolescents and children sometimes act as combatants who<br />directly participate in hostilities. Yet more often they are deployed as auxiliaries (for<br />example, as lookouts or messengers) or in various support roles (as gardening, road<br />maintenance, delivery of food, cleaning, cooking, conveying goods and providing<br />sexual services) (Boothby and Knudsen 2000). Finally, under certain circumstances,<br />adolescents and children may be used as human shields or for propaganda purposes<br />by government or opposition forces (Boyden and De Berry 2004:xii; United Nations<br />2002:13). Since the late 1970s, a number of international conventions have been<br />promulgated to limit the use of these young people, but children continue to be<br />deployed in parts of the world and overwhelmingly in sub-Saharan Africa. Estimates<br />as to their numbers vary. Human Rights Watch (2007), a human rights lobby,<br />estimates that there are between 200 000 and 300 000 such youngsters in armed<br />conflicts in over twenty countries.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/57
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 37, Iss 1 (2011)
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.title	FACING CHILD SOLDIERS, MORAL ISSUES, AND “REAL SOLDIERING”: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PROFESSIONAL ARMED FORCES*
dc.type	Article