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Kostelney, Kathleen
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Youth Soldiering: An integrated framework for understanding psychosocial impact
A pervasive characteristic of contemporary political violence is that youth, mostly between the ages of 14 and 18 years, are prominent actors in these hostilities. Seventy-two (72) different parties to armed conflict currently use children as soldiers. Th