No Longer Invisible: Girl Soldiering and the Consequences for Conflict

• In Event: Combatant Behavior and Tactics

Brief Overview

Employing new data on girl soldiering, we show that civil conflicts in which rebel groups use girl soldiers last longer and are more severe than conflicts in which only boy soldiers are used or in which no child soldiers are used.

Authors

• Jaclyn Johnson, Centre College

• William Gene OConnell, University of Kentucky

• Christopher M Faulkner, Centre College