Childhood Deployed: Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra LeoneChildhood Deployed examines the reintegration of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Based on eighteen months of participant observer ethnographic fieldwork and ten years of follow up research, the book argues that there is a fundamental disconnect between the Western idea of the child soldier and the individual lived experiences of the child soldiers of Sierra Leone. Susan Shepler contends that the reintegration of former child soldiers is a