War and Children: A Reference Handbook (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313362088)

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.

Author: Kendra E. Dupuy,Krijn Peters
ISBN-10: 0313362084
ISBN-13: 9780313362088
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2009
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2010
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 145