SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON CHILD SOLDIERS

Many documents on child soldiers are available at the on-line library of Amnesty International.

Reports on the practice of individual countries with respect to the recruitment and use of children as soldiers is available for Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe at the website of the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers.

Selected articles and Reports

Amnesty International (AI), In the Firing Line: War and Children's Rights (London: AI, 1999)

Neil C. Boothby and Christine M. Knudsen, "Children of the Gun," Scientific American, June 2000, pp. 60-65.

Ilene Cohn and Guy Goodwin, Child Soldiers: The Role of Children in Armed Conflict (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994).

Human Rights Watch (HRW), Children in Combat (New York: HRW, 1997)

---Easy Prey: Child Soldiers in Liberia (New York: HRW, 1994)

---Children of Sudan: Slaves, Street Children, and Child Soldiers (New York: HRW, 1995)

---Sudan: The Lost Boys: Child Soldiers and Unaccompanied Boys in Southern Sudan (New York: HRW, 1994)

---The Scars of Death: Children Abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda (New York: HRW, 1997)

Michael Wessells, "Child Soldiers," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 53, no. 6, (November/December 1997), pp. 32-39.

---"How We Can Prevent Child Soldiering," Peace Review, vol. 12, no. 3 (2000), pp. 407-13.

---"Children, Armed Conflict, and Peace," Journal of Peace Research, vol. 35, no. 5 (1998), pp. 635-46.