Reading on Child Soldiers, Rebellion and Civil War
This list suggests some useful reading on child soldiers, rebellion and civil war.
- Allen, T. (2006). Trial Justice. The International Criminal Court and the Lord’s Resistance Army. David Philip, South Africa.
- Andvig, J.C. (2006). Child soldiers: Reasons for variation in their rate of recruitment and standards of welfare. [704] Paper, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
- Blattman, C. (2007). The Causes of Child Soldiering: Theory and Evidence from Northern Uganda. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Chicago, IL.
- Blattman, C., and Annan, J. (2008). Child Combatants in Northern Uganda; Reintegration in myths and reality. Routledge Research.
- Boothby, N.D. (2006). A World Turned Upside Down: Social Ecological Approaches to Children in War Zones. Kumarian Press.
- Borzello, A. (2007). The Challenge of DDR in Northern Uganda: The Lord’s Resistance Army. In: Conflict, Security and Development. London, Routledge.
- Brett, R., and Specht, I. (2004). Young Soldiers: Why They Choose to Fight. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.
- Briggs, J. (2005). Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War. Basic Books.
- Bøås, M., and Dunn, K. (2007). African Guerrillas: Raging Against the Machine. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
- Child Soldiers Global Report 2008 (2008). Global Report 2008. http://www.childsoldiersglobalreport.org/
- Clapham, C. (1998). African Guerrillas. Oxford University Press.
- Collier, P., and Hoeffler, A. (2004). Greed and Grievance in Civil War. Oxford University Press
- Dunson, D.H. (2008). Child, Victim, Soldier: The Loss of Innocence in Uganda. Orbis Books.
- Egeland, J. (2007). Det Nytter. Rapport fra frontlinjene. Aschehoug & Co, Oslo.
- Eichstaedt, P. (2009). First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army. Lawrence Hill Books.
- Finnström, S. (2008). Living with Bad Surroundings. War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda. Duke University Press, London.
- Gates, S. (2002). Recruitment and Allegiance: The Microfoundations of Rebellion. In: Journal of Conflict Resolution. Vol 46, No. 1: 111-130.
- Gates, S., and Reich, S. (2009). Think Again: The Seven Myths of Child Soldiering.
- Gates, S. and Reich, S. (2009). Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States. University of Pittsburgh Press.
- Honwana, A. (2007). Child Soldiers in Africa. University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Human Rights Watch (2007). Child Soldiers. http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/crp/index.htm
- International Labor Office (2003). Wounded Childhood: The Use of Children in Armed Conflict in Central Africa. Geneva.
- Kalyvas, S. (2006). The Logic of Violence in Civil War, Cambridge University Press.
- Kressel, N. J., (2002). Mass Hate: The Global Rise of Genocide and Terror. Westview Press.
- Machel, G. (2001). The Impact of War on Children. UNICEF. UBC Press, Vancouver.
- Redress (2006). Victims, Perpetrators or Heroes? Child Soldiers before the International Criminal Court. The Redress Trust, London.
- Rosen, D.M. (2005). Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism. Rutgers University Press.
- Singer, P. (2006). Children at War. University of California Press.
- Temmerman, E., de (2001). Aboke Girls: Children Abducted in Northern Uganda. Fountain Publishers.
- Vetlesen, Arne Johan (2005). Evil and Human Agency: Understanding Collective Evildoing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Vermeij, L. (2009). Children of Rebellion; The Socialization of Child Soldiers within the Lord’s Resistance Army. Norwegian institute of International Affairs.
- Weinstein, J. (2006). Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
- Wessells, M. (2004). Psychosocial Issues in Reintegrating Child Soldiers. In: Cornell International Law Journal. 37: 515.
- Wessells, M. (2006). Child Soldiers: From Violence to Protection. Harvard University Press.
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