COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CHILD SOLDIERING ON MYANMAR-CHINA BORDER

Firstly, the book places child soldiering in its historical context, and argues that child soldiering is a social construct. Then the book develops case analysis in China-Myanmar, Thai-Myanmar and Bangladesh-Myanmar borders regions. Secondly, the book concerns the complicated motivations of child soldering, explains why many child soldiers are volunteers through the perspective of Stockholm syndrome, which is rarely mentioned by published works. Thirdly, with regard to the challenges, the book highlights the possibilities of child solders being transformed into lone wolf terrorists. It also tries to resolve the challenges and barriers through the approach of Public-Private Partnership, which prefers "consensual engagement" through intercession and humanities assistance.

Idioma: INGLÉS