Child Soldiers in Africa
Child Soldiers in Africa
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非洲的儿童兵
DOI：
10.9783/9780812204773
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发表时间：
2007
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2
通讯作者：
Alcinda Honwana
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作者：
Alcinda Honwana
在世界许多地区，青年一直处于政治冲突的最前线，即使冲突已经演变成暴力。在其中一些情况下，由于各种原因，包括胁迫、贫穷或暴力的诱惑性，儿童在能够掌握基本道德之前就成为杀手。只是在过去十年中，战争的这一组成部分才引起世界的注意。男孩携带枪支和弹药的画面现在已经司空见惯，因为他们在电视屏幕上闪现，并出现在报纸的头版。媒体很少报道女孩被迫为民兵服务的故事，但同样令人不安。
今天的一个主要关切是如何扭转对成千上万儿童造成的损害，这些儿童不仅成为受害者，而且成为战时暴行的代理人。在《非洲的儿童兵》一书中，阿尔辛达·翁瓦纳利用她与安哥拉和莫桑比克儿童打交道的第一手经验，以及她为联合国和社会科学研究理事会对这一现象的研究，阐明了儿童是如何被招募的，他们遇到了什么，以及他们如何接受自己的所作所为。Honwana着眼于当地社区在治愈和重建这些儿童生活中的作用。她还审查了国际组织为支持这些战时伤亡人员所作的努力，并向读者介绍了这些组织所面临的障碍。
Young people have been at the forefront of political conflict in many parts of the world, even when it has turned violent. In some of those situations, for a variety of reasons, including coercion, poverty, or the seductive nature of violence, children become killers before they are able to grasp the fundamentals of morality. It has been only in the past ten years that this component of warfare has captured the attention of the world. Images of boys carrying guns and ammunition are now commonplace as they flash across television screens and appear on the front pages of newspapers. Less often, but equally disturbingly, stories of girls pressed into the service of militias surface in the media.
A major concern today is how to reverse the damage done to the thousands of children who have become not only victims but also agents of wartime atrocities. In Child Soldiers in Africa, Alcinda Honwana draws on her firsthand experience with children of Angola and Mozambique, as well as her study of the phenomenon for the United Nations and the Social Science Research Council, to shed light on how children are recruited, what they encounter, and how they come to terms with what they have done. Honwana looks at the role of local communities in healing and rebuilding the lives of these children. She also examines the efforts undertaken by international organizations to support these wartime casualties and enlightens the reader on the obstacles faced by such organizations.