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This chapter focuses on the recruitment, participation and experiences of girl child soldiers involved in previous and ongoing conflicts worldwide. The phenomenon of child soldiers has been widely studied. It has received a great deal of attention over the past few decades. The 1997 Cape Town Principles and Best Practices define a child soldier as:
… any person under 18 years of age who is part of any kind of regular or irregular armed force or armed group in any capacity including but not limited to cooks, porters, messengers and anyone accompanying such groups, other than family members. The definition includes girls recruited for sexual purposes or for forced marriage. It does not, therefore, only refer to a child who is carrying or has carried arms.1
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Carroll, S. (2015). Catch Them Young: Participation and Roles of Girl Child Soldiers in Armed Conflicts. In: Shekhawat, S. (eds) Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137516565_3
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