Author : Kendra E. Dupuy
Release : 2009-11-19
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis War and Children by : Kendra E. Dupuy
Download or read book War and Children written by Kendra E. Dupuy. This book was released on 2009-11-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, up-to-date presentation of how children and young people are affected by and respond to situations of armed conflict and postwar reconstruction. War and Children: A Reference Handbook looks at one of the most wrenching aspects of armed conflict, ranging across the globe to examine the different ways armed conflict and postwar reconstructions affect children and young people, and how they have responded to both war and efforts to alleviate war's destruction. While war has always affected children, the nature of that impact has changed in the last half-century. Civil conflicts break out in mostly poor, developing countries with large populations of young people, and combatants are less hesitant to turn civilian areas into battlegrounds. War and Children explores these phenomena by focusing primarily on recent conflicts worldwide, with case studies dramatizing important issues and controversies-including the considerable number of children soldiers throughout the world.