Child Soldiers or War Affected Children? Why the Formerly Abducted Children of Northern Uganda are not Child Soldiers

dc.contributor.authorAngucia, Margaret
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-29T07:22:19Z
dc.date.available2019-04-29T07:22:19Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractIn 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 categorization prefer to be regarded as war a¡ected. This paper concludes with the warning that erroneouscategorisation of war a¡ected children mightin£uence, and/or undermine, the electiveness of targeted intervention programmes.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAngucia, M., 2014. Child soldiers or war affected children? Why the formerly abducted children of northern Uganda are not child soldiers.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12280/2427
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectAbducted Childrenen_US
dc.subjectChild Soldiersen_US
dc.subjectNorthern Ugandaen_US
dc.titleChild Soldiers or War Affected Children? Why the Formerly Abducted Children of Northern Uganda are not Child Soldiersen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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