Neither War Nor Peace: International Comparisons of Children and Youth .... Luke Dowdney

Neither War Nor Peace: International Comparisons of Children and Youth in Organised Armed Violence

Dowdney, L

The international community has been slow to appreciate the growing problem of the participation of armed children and youths in non-political disputes, encountered in both developed and developing countries, from Haiti to Northern Ireland. While there is widespread recognition of the issue of child soldiers (e.g. www.childsoldiers.org/ ) there are also many children who participate in organised armed groups that function outside traditionally defined war zones. Nowhere is this issue more acute than in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There may be more people (and specifically children) dying from small-arms fire in Rio de Janeiro than in many armed conflicts elsewhere. Most are bound up in the relentless conflicts involving factions of drugs traffickers fighting within and between Rio's favelas , or shanty towns, and their burgeoning drugs trade.

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Good condition except for the top of the back cover being significantly faded.

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