David M. Rosen is an American anthropologist. Rosen holds a J.D. from Pace University School of Law

Pace University School of Law

Pace University School of Law, known colloquially as "Pace Law School", is the law school of Pace University, a comprehensive, independent, and diversified university with campuses in New York City and Westchester County...

 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Illinois. He is Professor of Anthropology, at Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh Dickinson University is a private university founded as a junior college in 1942. It now has several campuses located in New Jersey, Canada, and the United Kingdom.-Description:...

. He lived in Teaneck, New Jersey

Teaneck, New Jersey

Teaneck is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, and a suburb in the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 39,776, making it the second-most populous among the 70 municipalities in Bergen County....

 and now resides in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

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Rosen’s book, Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism, garnered considerable public attention. 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

First Intifada

The First Intifada was a Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. The uprising began in the Jabalia refugee camp and quickly spread throughout Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem....

, in the context of political theories about the ethics of children becoming soldiers.

Rosen was active in the campaign against blood diamonds.

Publications

• 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