Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2011
1 The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child defines as a child everyone under the age of eighteen.
2 UNHCR, “What Is a Refugee?”; available at http:\\www.ninemillion.org/facts/facts.cfm.
3 Henrik Urdal, “The Devil in the Demographics: The Effect of Youth Bulges on Domestic Armed Conflict, 1950–2000,” World Bank Social Development Paper No. 14, July 2004; available at lnweb18.worldbank.org/ESSD/sdvext.nsf/67ByDocName/TheDevilintheDemographicsTheEffectofYouthBulgesonDomesticArmedConflict1950-2000/$FILE/WP14_Web.pdf.
4 Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, “Making the Choice for a Better Life: Promoting the Protection and Capacity of Kosovo's Youth,” January 2001; available at http:\\www.womenscommission.org/pdf/yu_adol.pdf.
5 United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, “Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in a Peacekeeping Environment: Principles and Guidelines,” December 1999; available at http:\\www.un.org/Depts/dpko/lessons/DD&R.pdf.