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Record W4391321215 · doi:10.1080/13698249.2024.2306594

Not the Usual Suspects: Making Child Soldiers in the Gunsight

2024· article· en· W4391321215 on OpenAlexafffund
J. Marshall Beier

Bibliographic record

VenueCivil Wars · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicMigration, Health and Trauma
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council
KeywordsPolitical scienceLawCriminologyPsychology

Abstract

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Questions prompted by a 2010 U.S. drone strike in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan bring to light an underappreciated dimension of the making of child soldiers. Turning on a readiness to presume some children as threatening when they are held in the gaze of the drone’s-eye view and the crosshairs of the gunsight, childhood as a proxy of non-combatant status is at times dismissed or even repudiated, thereby inscribing particular children as combatants, qua soldiers. The Uruzgan strike and the tactical decision-making that unfolded in the lead-up to it recommend thinking beyond the ‘usual suspects’ in the making of child soldiers.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.462
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

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 head0.029
GPT teacher head0.337
Teacher spread0.308 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
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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Citations3
Published2024
Admission routes2
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