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Exclusion or Reintegration: Child Soldiers in Angola

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Child Soldiers: From Recruitment to Reintegration

Abstract

Reintegration of former fighters in Angola following the end of conflict there in 2002 has occurred against a legal and normative backdrop of increased concern for children as a distinctive category of ex-combatants, or ‘vulnerable group’ in the lingo of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR).1 A burgeoning literature on child soldiers has also emphasized the special vulnerability, needs and rights of children.2 Angola’s DDR programmes designed and implemented over the last decade therefore provide a case study of whether the norms, conventions, rhetoric and programming of the child protection regime have benefited the reintegration of underage fighters.

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  1. Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies (CPRS), Coventry University, UK

    Alpaslan Özerdem (Professor and Chair in Peacebuilding) (Professor and Chair in Peacebuilding)

  2. Centre for Security Sector Management, Cranfield University, UK

    Sukanya Podder (Lecturer in International Politics and Development) (Lecturer in International Politics and Development)

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McMullin, J.R. (2011). Exclusion or Reintegration: Child Soldiers in Angola. In: Özerdem, A., Podder, S. (eds) Child Soldiers: From Recruitment to Reintegration. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230342927_14

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