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ФЕНОМЕН ДЕЦЕ РАТА (РАТНИКА)
PHENOMENON OF CHILD WARRIORS

Author(s): Hatidža Beriša, Vladimir P. Tomašević
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sociology, Studies in violence and power, Victimology, Social Norms / Social Control
Published by: CENTAR MODERNIH ZNANJA
Keywords: children; warriors; terrorism; armed conflict; military conflict; abuse;

Summary/Abstract: Modern political reality that we are witnessing, is marked by an escalation of terrorist activities around the world. Terrorism is the weapon of the weak, which in the modern era to which we belong, as a way of confronting the powerful enemy forces, using numerous and various political and religious groups and organizations. Although it is well known that all terrorist organizations around the world have their own offspring, and that the recruitment of children and manipulation of them do not differ significantly from the same phenomenon in countries affected by armed conflict, in the following we will passages, because the thematic specificity and nature of the work itself, exposure primarily focus on the abuse of children in armed conflict, without particular reference to the abuse in the commission of terrorist activities. Guided by this fact, the paper will seek to said phenomenom approach relying on scientific methods of content analysis of publicly available information contained in the reports of UN bodies, as well as a number of regional initiatives and the coalitions, their programs and work activities, gathered around the same goal-reducing the expansion of the multiple significant social phenomena.

  • Issue Year: V/2020
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 560-568
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Serbian