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    Broken citizenship: formely abducted children and their social reintegration in northern Uganda
    (Journal of Social Intervention: Theory and Practice, 2010) Angucia, Margaret; Wassenaar, Nicolien
    When children are abducted the links of their citizenship get broken. These links need to be repaired in order to be socially reintegrated and become active, valuable and meaningful members of the community again. This is the approach in the thesis Broken Citizenship. Formerly abducted children and their social reintegration in northern Uganda by Margaret Angucia.
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    Child soldiers or war affected children? Why the formerly abducted children of northern Uganda are not child soldiers
    (Intervention, 2014) Angucia, Margaret
    In many places around the globe, over many centuries, adults have forcibly involved children in war. In more recent times, these forcibly involved children have come to be collectively referred to as ‘child soldiers’, in an attempt to address the crises that these children experience within war conditions. However, recent held experiences from northern Uganda show that children, formerly abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army, as well as the community they return to, do not consider themselves as soldiers. This paper explains the reasons why the children reject this categorization and prefer to be regarded as war affected. This paper concludes with the warning that erroneous categorization of war affected children might infuence, and/or undermine, the effectiveness of targeted intervention programmes.