Stolen Childhood- Child Soldiers

American children may do homework at night or watch television. This is normal for people under the age of 18 in the United States. But now, in other parts of the world, children are sold, adopted by the military, and their fate and night are entrusted to the hands of their leaders. Many people want to know why children are hired by the military and what will happen when they join the army. Many different variables, including so-called push-pull factors, can play a role in turning children into soldiers.

The first term used was the child soldier. Internationally agreed child soldiers are defined internationally as follows. • Children related to military or armed groups are those employed or used by armed groups or armed groups under the age of 18. It is limited to children, boys, girls, used for warriors, cooks, porters, spies, or for sexual purposes. (Paris Principles on Children's Participation in Armed Conflict in 2007. You can ask questions based on this definition, among other things, to analyze the childhood concepts mentioned here and to analyze childhood and adult soldiers We will also examine the difference between the child soldiers themselves and whether they need this distinction, when we start with the analysis of our own soldiers themselves When are they used in the army and why are they used for the first time?

Cultural relativists challenge children's rights in the childhood concept of modern post-modern western part and the context of child soldiers. 1) Distinguish children from adults using age, 2) Children should not be involved in the fundamental belief of armed conflict Vulnerability and lack of agents. Through criticism of these three principles, cultural relativists will challenge children's DDR programs. Using age to distinguish children from adults is often irrelevant to the socio-cultural context of child soldiers' lives, whether or not the government has approved the rights committee of the child. In many non-Western countries rituals, enlightenment, marriage, and birthrate are used as an indicator of adults rather than age (Francis, David, 2007; Gallagher, Michael, 2002; Lee, Ah-Jung, 2009).

Child soldiers and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programs: Children's rights Universalism and cultural relativism

Child soldiers are not different from child offenders. Child soldiers are responsible for the most brutal and violent war acts. In Sierra Leone, child soldiers raped, cut, and mass killed a citizen. According to most domestic laws, the age of criminal liability is much lower than 18 years old, and in the United States criminal liability can be as low as 8 years old. If a child is convicted of murder under domestic law they are also responsible for international crimes. Just because that crime happened during wartime should not be so