Global Perspectives

World Map: Where Are Child & Young Adult Soldiers Being Used?

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appropriate CONTINENT below.

Selected Countries Where Child and Young Adult Soldiers Are Being Used by Government or Opposition Forces

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[Africa][Americas][Asia]
[Europe][Middle East][Oceania]


Information about individual countries was drawn from several sources including the following:

Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers (1999). The use of children as soldiers in africa:  A country analysis of child recruitment and participation in armed conflict.  Switzerland:  Author.

Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers (1998). Stop using child soldiers!  London:  Author

Goodwin-Gill, G., & Cohn, I. (1994).  Child soldiers:  The role of children in armed conflicts.  Oxford:  Clarendon Press.

Legrand, J.C. (1999).  Lessons learned, prevention of recruitment, demobilization, and reintegration of child soldiers:  Case of Angola, Mozambique, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan OLS.  Unpublished manuscript.



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