"And so They Ordered Me to Kill a Person": Conceptualizing the Impacts of Child Soldiering on the Development of Moral Agency

Autor/in	Wainryb, Cecilia
Titel	"And so They Ordered Me to Kill a Person": Conceptualizing the Impacts of Child Soldiering on the Development of Moral Agency
Quelle	In: Human Development, 54 (2011) 5, S.273-300 (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-716X
DOI	10.1159/000331482
Schlagwörter	Children; Military Personnel; Moral Development; Moral Values; Child Development; Self Concept; Experience; Violence; Context Effect; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Reflection + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Moralische Entwicklung; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Kindesentwicklung; Selbstkonzept; Erfahrung; Gewalt
Abstract	Approximately 300,000 child soldiers serve in various armed groups around the world, and become directly implicated in the perpetration of kidnappings, killings, and torture. Considering that children construct moral concepts and a sense of themselves as moral beings in the context of their everyday interactions with others, the concern with how their harrowing experiences of violence may affect their moral development is particularly compelling. To date, however, no research has been conducted examining how these youths grapple with the violence they have perpetrated and how they reconcile their own actions with a view of themselves as moral people. In this paper, I review the limitations of constructs relying on moral disengagement and post-traumatic stress, which are typically used for examining the aftermaths of violence perpetration, and outline a new framework grounded on the normative developmental process whereby children grapple with their experiences of wrongdoing. (As Provided).
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