scholarly journals Growing up in armed groups: trauma and aggression among child soldiers in DR Congo

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 21408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharin Hermenau ◽  
Tobias Hecker ◽  
Anna Maedl ◽  
Maggie Schauer ◽  
Thomas Elbert
Keyword(s):  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Dr Congo

scholarly journals Navigating social spaces: armed mobilization and circular return in Eastern DR Congo

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koen Vlassenroot ◽  
Emery Mudinga ◽  
Josaphat Musamba
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Dr Congo ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Refugee Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pendular State

Abstract This article discusses the social mobility of combatants and introduces the notion of circular return to explain their pendular state of movement between civilian and combatant life. This phenomenon is widely observed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where Congolese youth have been going in and out of armed groups for several decades now. While the notion of circular return has its origins in migration and refugee studies, we show that it also serves as a useful lens to understand the navigation capacity between different social spaces of combatants and to describe and understand processes of incessant armed mobilization and demobilization. In conceptualizing these processes as forms of circular return, we want to move beyond the remobilization discourse, which is too often connected to an assumed failure of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration processes. We argue that this discourse tends to ignore combatants’ agency and larger processes of socialization and social rupture as part of armed mobilization.

scholarly journals Recruitment of child soldiers in Nepal: Mental health status and risk factors for voluntary participation of youth in armed groups.

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon A. Kohrt ◽  
Minyoung Yang ◽  
Sauharda Rai ◽  
Anvita Bhardwaj ◽  
Wietse A. Tol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Mental Health Status ◽  
Voluntary Participation ◽  
Armed Groups

scholarly journals Vécu Des Enfants Soldats Pendant La Guerre: Une Analyse À Partir Des Projets De l’Organisation Non Gouvernemental Caritas Makeni En Sierra Léone

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 256
Author(s):  
Gnamien Yawa Ossi
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Child Soldier ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Social Reintegration ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

The phenomenon of «child soldier» has become very rampant these last years. In Africa, they are very common in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in Chad, in Uganda, in Sierra Leone, and in Côte d’Ivoire. More recently, they are in Mali and in the Central African Republic. However, armed conflicts have imposed various situations on populations. The children are the main victims. The focus of this study is on child soldiers during times of war. The main objective of this study is to analyze the ways they join the armed groups and the difficulties of their social reintegration. The objective of this study is to analyze the recruitment conditions of children and the difficulties of social reintegration. The hypothesis postulates that there is a link between the passage of the children in armed groups and their psychosocial outcome. The study took place in Sierra Leone. The quantitative and qualitative methods were used. The results of the study show that: the mode of recruitment of children has an influence on their social reintegration. Also, the violent practices in armed conflicts are obstacles to their social reintegration.

scholarly journals Trauma, Aggression, and Post Conflict Perpetration of Community Violence in Female Former Child Soldiers—A Study in Eastern DR Congo

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katy Robjant ◽  
Sabine Schmitt ◽  
Amani Chibashimba ◽  
Samuel Carleial ◽  
Thomas Elbert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Violence ◽  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Dr Congo ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Former Child Soldiers

scholarly journals Aggression inoculates against PTSD symptom severity—insights from armed groups in the eastern DR Congo

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 20070 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Hecker ◽  
Katharin Hermenau ◽  
Anna Maedl ◽  
Maggie Schauer ◽  
Thomas Elbert
Keyword(s):  
Symptom Severity ◽  
Ptsd Symptom ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Dr Congo ◽  
Ptsd Symptom Severity

scholarly journals TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE: THE REINTEGRATION OF CHILD SOLDIERS THROUGH POST-CONFLICT METHODS OF JUSTICE

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 474
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Made In

<p>This paper examines the problematic of child soldiers, based on inter alia the strategy of research <br />and study of the United Nations Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for <br />Children and Armed Conflict and on the priorities of the Machel Study. Here, national and international <br />law will be applied on countries where children are recruited by armed groups. Concerning domestic <br />jurisdiction alternative or traditional methods of justice as well as formal legal methods will be <br />addressed. Specifically, this paper will focus on three main subjects: 1) the possibility of prosecution <br />and judgment of adolescents, who participated in armed conflicts; 2) prosecution and judgment of war lords <br />and 3) civil reparation proportional to the damage caused by an armed conflict. These three subjects will <br />be construed according to (traditional or alternative and formal) national and international law. Finally, <br />some recommendations will be made in order to improve the system of reintegration of child soldiers in <br />post-conflict countries.</p>

scholarly journals Child soldiers in Colombia: Five views

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Alberto Carmona Parra ◽  
Florentino Moreno Martín ◽  
John Felipe Tobón Hoyos
Keyword(s):  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
Three Samples

This paper offers explanations of the meanings that push children to illegally armed groups in Colombia from the testimony of 21 demobilized young girls from the region of Antioquia (Colombia). The girls’ answers are placed on a typology of explanations drawn from academic reports, and compared to three samples of attributions of students, teachers and policemen of their same region. The visions “idealizing” and “criminalizing” mobilization are practically marginal in all samples. The dominant vision among the girls is called “self-assertive”. From the rest of the samples, as well as for the experts, the majority of the views are “victimizing”.

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