Child Soldiers: From Violence to Protection
- ISBN-10
- 0674032551
- ISBN-13
- 9780674032552
- Series
- Child Soldiers
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 284
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Author
- Michael Wessells
Description
Looks at the lives of the estimated 300,00 child soldiers around the world serving as spies, human land mine detectors, porters, and sex slaves and their chances to enter civilian life and heal the wounds inflicted upon them.
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