The War Crime of Child Soldier Recruitment

• Main Author: McBride, Julie (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: The Hague : T.M.C. Asser Press : Imprint: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2014.
• Subjects: Law.; Public international law.; Human rights.; International humanitarian law.; International criminal law.; International Criminal Law.; Human Rights.; International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict.; Public International Law.

The practice of using children to participate in conflict has become a defining characteristic of 21st century warfare and is the most recent addition to the canon of international war crimes. This book follows the development of this crime of recruiting, conscripting or using children for participa...

Table of Contents:

• The Child Soldier Dilemma
• The Rome Statute: Codification of the Crime
• The Special Court For Sierra Leone: ‘Crystallisation’ and Child Soldiers
• The Special Court for Sierra Leone: The First Convictions
• Child Soldiers at the International Criminal Court
• Conclusions.