Children at War by Peter W. Singer

Author:Peter W. Singer [Singer, P. W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-101-97005-8
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

PART III

Responding to the Child Soldier Problem

CHAPTER 8

Preventing Child Soldiers

It’s a good start to write documents and stuff, but it’s time to stop theorising and start doing work to end this.

—I., age thirteen1

The use of children as soldiers raises both the frequency and savageness of conflict. It makes conflicts easier to start, tougher to end, and more likely to recur. Even worse, the trend appears set only to magnify in the coming years. What, then, is to be done in response—before, during, and in the aftermath of children’s use as soldiers?

This chapter will look at potential ways to prevent and deter the practice of using child soldiers. In order to be effective, any effort against their use must seek to understand the doctrine behind it and see it for what it is. Child soldiering stems from a set of deliberate choices and strategies designed by leaders to gain from using children in war. By understanding the causes, as well as the resulting dynamics, more nuanced strategies can then be developed that attack the doctrine at its very heart.

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