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020 _a9781501709425
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024 7 _a10.1515/9781501709425
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501709425
035 _a(DE-B1597)527448
035 _a(OCoLC)1091029537
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
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050 4 _aHV6433.I742
_bB56 2020
072 7 _aPOL037000
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082 0 4 _a363.325083091767
_223
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBloom, Mia
_eautore
245 1 0 _aSmall Arms :
_bChildren and Terrorism /
_cMia Bloom.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource (248 p.) :
_b5 b&w halftones, 3 charts, 13 plates
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_t1. What Is a Child? --
_t2. Child Soldiers versus Children in Terrorist Groups --
_t3. Learning to Hate: Socialization and Cultural Influences --
_t4. Pathways to Involvement: Coercion --
_t5. Pathways to Involvement: Consensus and Cultures of Martyrdom --
_t6. Experiences, Apprenticeships, and Careers in Terror --
_t7. Leaving Terrorism Behind --
_t8. An End or a New Beginning? --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
_2star
520 _aWhy do terrorist organizations use children to support their cause and carry out their activities? Small Arms uncovers the brutal truth behind the mobilization of children by terrorist groups. Mia Bloom and John Horgan show us the grim underbelly of society that allows and even encourages the use of children to conduct terrorist activities. They provide readers with the who, what, when, why, and how of this increasingly concerning situation, illuminating a phenomenon that to most of us seems abhorrent. And yet, they argue, for terrorist groups the use of children carries many benefits. Children possess skills that adults lack. They often bring innovation and creativity. Children are, in fact, a superb demographic from which to recruit if you are a terrorist.Small Arms answers questions about recruitment strategies and tactics, determines what makes a child terrorist and what makes him or her different from an adult one, and charts the ways in which organizations use them. The unconventional focus on child and youth militants allows the authors to, in essence, give us a biography of the child terrorist and the organizations that use them. We are taken inside the mind of the adult and the child to witness that which perhaps most scares us.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aChild suicide bombers
_zIslamic countries.
650 0 _aChild terrorists
_zIslamic countries.
650 0 _aChildren and terrorism
_zIslamic countries.
650 4 _aChildhood Studies.
650 4 _aPolitical Science & Political History.
650 4 _aSociology & Social Science.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism.
_2bisacsh
653 _achild militant, child soldiers, Islamist terrorists, Pakistan, Palestine.
700 1 _aHorgan, John
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781501709425?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501709425
856 4 2 _3Cover
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