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Child Soldier Victims of Genocidal Forcible Transfer

Exonerating Child Soldiers Charged With Grave Conflict-related International Crimes

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  • Provides an original analysis of child soldiers recruited into armed groups or forces committing mass atrocities and/or genocide as the victims of genocidal forcible transfer of children
  • Analyzes various modes of judicial and non-judicial accountability mechanisms for child soldiers charged with international crimes and discusses their inapplicability
  • Challenges various anthropological accounts of child soldiers' alleged accountability for conflict-related international crimes as members of armed groups or forces committing mass atrocities and/or genocide

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This book provides an original legal analysis of child soldiers recruited into armed groups or forces committing mass atrocities and/or genocide as the victims of the genocidal forcible transfer of children. Legal argument is made regarding the lack of criminal culpability of such child soldier 'recruits' for conflict-related international crimes and the inapplicability of currently recommended judicial and non-judicial accountability mechanisms in such cases. The book challenges various anthropological accounts of child soldiers' alleged 'tactical agency' to resist committing atrocity as members of armed groups or forces committing mass atrocity and/or genocide. Also provided are original interpretations of relevant international law including an interpretation of the Rome Statute age-based exclusion from prosecution of persons who were under 18 at the time of perpetrating the crime as substantive law setting an international standard for the humane treatment of child soldiers.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Education, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada

    Sonja C. Grover

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Child Soldier Victims of Genocidal Forcible Transfer

  • Book Subtitle: Exonerating Child Soldiers Charged With Grave Conflict-related International Crimes

  • Authors: Sonja C. Grover

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23614-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-23613-6Published: 05 January 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43535-5Published: 22 February 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-23614-3Published: 05 January 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 304

  • Topics: International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Human Rights, International Criminal Law

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eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
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  • Read on any device
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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