Children’s Rights Participation Rhetoric: Distorting the Plight of the Child Soldier

Sonja C. Grover ()
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Sonja C. Grover: Lakehead University

Chapter Chapter 1 in Child Soldier Victims of Genocidal Forcible Transfer, 2012, pp 1-59 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract However, there is no empirical evidence that the commission of atrocity during hostilities is a function of age of the belligerent; or more specifically, that younger children are more likely to commit atrocity than are older; or that children are more likely to commit atrocity than are adults under the same circumstances. Indeed, across the centuries most mass atrocity has been committed not by children but by adults whose inhibitory neurological functions are presumed generally to be fully developed. In the context of armed groups committing systematic mass murder and mayhem, situational factors are likely to be a better predictor of the behavior of the child soldier rather than is his or her specific age insofar as the likelihood of the child violating international humanitarian law.

Keywords: Armed Conflict; International Criminal Court; International Crime; Special Protection; Armed Group (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23614-3_1

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