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Child Soldiers And Peace Agreements, Rose Mukhar
Child Soldiers And Peace Agreements, Rose Mukhar
Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law
This paper will explore and analyze the relationship between child soldiers and peace processes. It will address the protections offered – or lack thereof – by human rights and international humanitarian law to child soldiers in armed conflicts. In particular, the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (“DRC”) is specifically addressed because the DRC conflict from 1996 to 2002 can most likely be classified as a non-international armed conflict – which is what most of today’s conflicts are deemed; also because the numerous peace treaties from this time frame primarily failed to provide a lasting peace in the …