In order to understand and explain the phenomenon of child soldiers, she needs to start by amassing new knowledge. For example, how can she find out anything about the children’s motives and reasons for becoming soldiers and going off to war? Political scientist Prof. Dr. Roos van der Haer proceeds empirically, gathering her data by conducting fieldwork. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, she goes through a questionnaire she has designed herself with more than 300 children and a number of simultaneous translators. After they have been statistically analysed, their answers shed a great deal of light on the questions that guide her research – why do children become soldiers and what consequences do their many different experiences of violence have on the children themselves and on the relevant post-war society?
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