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    Child soldiers or war affected children? Why the formerly abducted children of northern Uganda are not child soldiers
    (Intervention, 2014) Angucia, Margaret
    In many places around the globe, over many centuries, adults have forcibly involved children in war. In more recent times, these forcibly involved children have come to be collectively referred to as ‘child soldiers’, in an attempt to address the crises that these children experience within war conditions. However, recent ¢eld experiences from northern Uganda show that children, formerly abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army, as well as the community they return to, do not consider themselves as soldiers. This paper explains the reasons why the children reject this categorisation and prefer to be regarded as war a¡ected. This paper concludes with the warning that erroneous categorisation of war a¡ected children might in£uence, and/or undermine, the e¡ectiveness of targeted intervention programmes.
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    Children and War in Africa: The Crisis Continues in Northern Uganda
    (Professors World Peace Academy, 2009) Angucia, Margaret
    Since the 1990s when the nature of conflict changed from interstate to intrastate, the use of children in the battlefronts and related places has become unprecedented. This paper discusses issues on children and war based on African experiences. The paper shows how children and their surroundings suffer in war conditions and how the crisis of use of children continues in northern Uganda. Issues that face children in war refuse to go away, the paper concludes. This paper is a version of the theoretical framework of the author's thesis on the social reintegration of war-affected children in northern Uganda. She is indebted to Inge Hutter, Peter Kanyandago and Jacques Zeleen.