Victims and/or perpetrators? Towards an interdisciplinary dialogue on child soldiers KU Leuven Universiteit Gent Universiteit Antwerpen
BACKGROUND: Worldwide, thousands of children are acting in different roles in armed groups. Whereas human rights activism and humanitarian imperatives tend to emphasize the image of child soldiers as incapable victims of adults' abusive compulsion, this image does not fully correspond with prevailing pedagogical and jurisprudential discourses, nor does it represent all child soldiers' own perceptions of their role. Moreover, contemporary warfare ...