Child soldiers: What about the girls?

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 30-35

  Mazurana, Dyan ^a   McKay, Susan ^a  

^a Canadian International Development Agency   (Canada)

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EID: 0013004495     PISSN: 00963402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2968/057005010     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Carol Thompson, "Beyond Civil Society: Child Soldiers as Citizens in Mozambique," Review of African Political Economy (80), pp. 191-206;
2. Jean Claude Legrand, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), personal communication, June 18, 2001.
3. Ruth Jacobson, as cited in Thompson.
4. Thompson, "Beyond Civil Society."
5. Associated Press, May 17, 2001, May 26, 2001; UNICEF, May 20, 2001, May 29, 2001.
6. Isuf Hajrizi, "Volunteers Ready to Join the Battle: Some Portraits of the Fighters," Kosova Crisis Center News, April 14, 1999 (www.albnet.com/kcc/). "Kosova" is the Albanian spelling; "Kosovo" is Serbian.
7. Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, "Africa Report," March 1999, "Americas Report," July 1999, "Asia Report," May 2000; Susan McKay and Dyan Mazurana, "Girls in Militaries, Paramilitaries, and Armed Opposition Groups," Selected Proceedings from the International Conference on War-Affected Children, (Ottawa: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and UNICEF, 2000).
8. Carol Williams, "In Kosovo, Rape Seen as Awful as Death," Los Angeles Times, May 27, 1999, A1.
9. Thompson, "Beyond Civil Society."
10. Aki Stavros Stavrou, Robert Stewart, and Amanda Stavrou, "The Reintegration of Child Soldiers and Abductees: A Case Study of Palaro and Pabbo, GuIu District, Northern Uganda." Background papers for the International Conference on War-Affected Children, September 2000, (Ottawa: Canadian International Development Agency and UNICEF, 2000).
11. Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, Child Soldiers Global Report, (London: Coalition, 2001).
12. Leila Pakkala, UNICEF, personal communication, June 19, 2001.
13. Physicians for Human Rights, Preliminary Findings and Recommendations on the Health Consequences of Human Rights Violations During the Civil War, unpublished report, March 2000.
14. Marie de la Soudiere, International Rescue Committee, personal communication, June 15, 2001.
15. Legrand, personal communication, June 18, 2001.
16. Physicians for Human Rights, Preliminary Findings, p. 3.
17. Physicians for Human Rights, Preliminary Findings, p. 3. Ibid.
18. African Psycare Research Organization, The Psychological Consequences of War Traumatization on the Women of Luweero District: An Intervention Report, (Kampala: Isis-WICCE, June 1999), p. 52.