Publication

This paper looks at the problem of child soldiers from a moral-ethical perspective. The author examines questions such as whether conditions of ignorance and duress in which child soldiers normally act ever make their action morally permissible; whether it is permissible for them to kill in individual self-defense; whether they can be seen as morally responsible agents at all; and how do the answers to these questions bear on how morally conscientious adult combatants should fight against them.