Child Soldiers, Peace Education, and Postconflict Reconstruction for Peace
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4256329 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Wessells (0000-0002-3999-9320, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 363-369 |
| Publication date | 2005-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Into Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5841 • E-ISSN: 1527-2532 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1207/s15430421tip4404_10 |
| OpenAlex | W2081591501 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 7 |
Worldwide, children are drawn into lives as soldiers and terrorism as the result of forced recruitment and also by extremist ideologies and their inability to obtain security, food, power, prestige, education, and positive life options through civilian means. Using an example from Sierra Leone, this article shows that peace education is an essential element in a holistic approach to the reintegration of former child soldiers and to the prevention of youth's engagement in violence and terrorism. In the postconflict context, effective peace education has a stronger practical than didactic focus, and it stimulates empathy, cooperation, reconciliation, and community processes for handling conflict in a nonviolent manner. These processes play a key role also in the prevention of children's engagement in violence and terrorism
Altruism (biology · Context (archaeology · Criminology · Element (criminal law · Empathy · Ideology · Peace Education · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Prestige · Sierra leone · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Terrorism · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Peace and Human Rights Education · Peacebuilding and International Security · Psychology · Social Psychology
Sierra Leone’s Former Child Soldiers
Decolonizing moral injury studies and treatment approaches
The political economy of child servitude in Liberia, West Africa
Peacebuilding through Education in Postconflict Northern Uganda
Staging Maralinga and looking for community (or why we must desire community before we can find it)
Child Trafficking and Recruitment in Armed Conflicts
Vicious gift? Types of external support and child recruitment by rebel groups
Motives for the enlistment and demobilization of illegal armed combatants in Colombia
Dealing with Relational and Social Challenges After Child Soldiering
Peace and Conflict Review
Stepping Onto an Egg
Pushing the Limits of Child Participation in Research
Retribution or Reconciliation
| Citations per year | 0.72 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |