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Record W1582279356 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511676475.003

Children's involvement in war: The quandary of structure and agency

2010· book-chapter· en· W1582279356 on OpenAlexaff
Myriam Denov

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2010
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicChildren's Rights and Participation
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAgency (philosophy)Structure and agencyPolitical scienceMedicineSociologySocial science

Abstract

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All warfare affects children, but there is mounting evidence that current conflicts are having a greater impact than ever before … African communities are increasingly … permeated by forces, relations and pressures … integrally related to globalization … Constrained by debt and structural adjustment programmes the economies of many developing countries have undergone restructuring which has involved cutting basic services and reducing the size of the public sector. Inequalities have widened and the effect on the social fabric has been to make livelihoods more insecure. Household and community capacities to nurture and protect are declining and there has been a weakening of the norms to protect children … This has resulted in the commodification of children … which is inducing an increase in child labour, including child soldiering. (Maxted 2003, pp. 51–2, 65) Many under-age combatants choose to fight with their eyes open and defend their choice, sometimes proudly … [M]ilitia activity offers young people a chance to make their way in the world … As rational human actors, they have [a] surprisingly mature understanding of their predicament. (Peters and Richards 1998, p. 183) While international concern and scholarly attention has increased about child soldiers and their seeming omnipresence within armed groups and forces, for the most part, children's involvement in armed conflict has tended to be explained by largely contrastive viewpoints.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.040

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.022
Scholarly communication0.0080.004
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0010.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.229
Teacher spread0.208 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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