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Journal of Conflict & Security Law (2005), Vol. 10 No. 3, 451–456 BOOK REVIEWS Jenny Kuper, Military Training and Children in Armed Conflict: Law, Policy and Practice. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2004, 299 pp. + xxi. ISBN 9004136738. ‘Children in Armed Conflict’ sounds wrong. Children should not be involved in such matters but, as we see everyday on our television screens, the reality is dif- ferent. Children are affected by conflict in many different ways. Despite interna- tional condemnation, the use of young children as fighters seems to be increasing in certain parts of the world, exacerbated perhaps by the AIDS pandemic, which is wiping out the generations above them. Children as orphans, children sepa- rated from their parents and families, children the victims of violent assault, chil- dren as sex slaves – all are images that we see too often. International law is a comparatively late arrival in this field. The protection of children began in earnest in the field of human rights. Within the law of armed conflict, children were linked to other vulnerable non-combatant groups. Only in the 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions was there recognition of child soldiers with the limitations contained in those
Journal of Conflict and Security Law – Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 6, 2005
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