Title: The Bullets Sound Like Music to My Ears
Description: Based on over 400 in-depth interviews with child soldiers and their commanders, this research reveals how rebel group socialization leads to allegiance among child soldiers and how this contributes to the creation of a cohesive group.
Supervisors: Dorothea Hilhorst, Gemma van der Haar
Key Publications:

• “The Bullets Sound Like Music To My Ears: Socialization of Child Soldiers within African Rebel Groups”. PhD thesis, Wageningen University, 2014.
• “Socialization and Reintegration Challenges: A Case Study of the Lord’s Resistance Army”
  in: Ozerdem and Polder (eds) Child Soldiers: From Recruitment to Reintegration. 173 – 190
  Palgrave Macmillan, New York/London, 2011
  ISBN-10: 0230241964
  ISBN-13: 978-0230241961
• “Children of Rebellion: Socialization of Child Soldiers within the Lord’s Resistance Army”.  Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, October 2009. 101 pages. ISBN: 978-82-7002-254-0.

More information: Project page.

Current information: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lotte-vermeij-8447b818/