David M. Rosen

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David M. Rosen is an American anthropologist. Rosen holds a J.D. from Pace University School of Law and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Illinois. He is Professor of Anthropology, at Fairleigh Dickinson University.^[1] He lived in Teaneck, New Jersey^[2] and now resides in Brooklyn.^{[citation needed]}

Rosen’s book, Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism, garnered considerable public attention.^{[3] [4]} The book discusses three case studies: Jewish children fighting the Germans in World War II, child soldiers in Sierra Leone, and Palestinian child fighters both in the 1930s and 40s and during the First Intifada, in the context of political theories about the ethics of children becoming soldiers.^[5]

Rosen was active in the campaign against blood diamonds.^[6]

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• Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism. Rutgers University Press 2005
• "Mass Imprisonment and the Family" In, Marriage and Family Review. Volume 32, Nos. 3/4 2001
• "New Myths and Meanings in Jewish New Moon Rituals." (Co-Authored with Victoria Rosen.) In Ethnology, Volume 39, No. 3.(Summer 2000)
• "American Families and American Law." In, Handbook of Marriage and the Family. New York, Plenum Press,1999
• "In the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an African Community." Edinburgh Law Review. Volume 3, No. 2, May,1999.
• "The Peasant Context of Feminist Revolt in West Africa," Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Jan., 1983), pp. 35-43
• "New Myths and Meanings in Jewish New Moon Rituals," with Victoria P. Rosen, Ethnology, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Summer, 2000), pp. 263-277
• "Child Soldiers, International Humanitarian Law, and the Globalization of Childhood," American Anthropologist, June 2007, Vol. 109, No. 2, pp. 296-306

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