Politicized Children are not to be Feared

Check out Chris Blattman's latest post and report on children in conflict. It challenges the common assumption that child soldiers or other children who have experienced conflict will be either traumatized by their experiences to a point where they are unproductive members of society. Rather, his new paper empirically proves that children who have experienced conflict become more civicly engaged.

Blog:
http://chrisblattman.blogspot.com/2008/01/young-veterans-traumatized-pariahs-or.html

Center for Global Development Paper:

http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15221