Children Affected by Armed Conflict in the Borderlands of Thailand

Kai Chen, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the School of International Relations, Xiamen University, China. His principal research focuses on the nexus between human insecurity and international relations, especially children affected by armed conflict in the borderlands of the conflict-affected countries. His previous positions include post-doctoral fellow at the School of Public Administration, Zhejiang University, and post-doctoral fellow at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Oxford, King’s College London, National University of Singapore, Kyoto University, Lund University, Cardiff University, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Chulalongkorn University, Thammasat University, etc. He is the author of Comparative study of child soldiering on Myanmar-China border: evolutions, challenges and countermeasures (Springer, 2014), and On geo-cultural relations between China and Indo-China Peninsula countries (Xiamen University Press, 2016).  

Acknowledgments.- List of Abbreviations.- Introduction: For The Living and The Dead.- 1. Child Soldiering in Thailand: A Ticking Bomb.- 2. Child Soldiering on Thailand-Myanmar Border: The God’s Army and Beyond.- 3. Child Soldiering in Thailand’s Deep South: Stories of Or Ror Bor and Chor Ror Bor.- 4. Security Governance of Child Soldiering: What Stakeholders Have Done.- 5. Why Thai Children Are Still Involved in Child Soldiering? : Lessons Learned.- 6. Transnational Public-private Partnership: A Second-best Solution.- Conclusion: Looking Ahead.- Bibliography.- Index.