The present dissertation intends to address the process of social construction of child soldiers. This will be a first exploratory step to critically analyze the structuring of a dominant discourse concerning the protection of boys and girls involved in contemporaneous armed conflicts. This discourse will be understood as constitutive of the normative framework of Post-Cold War international order. The dissertation will try to show that this discourse is not exempt from tensions that manifest themselves and are reproduced by the narratives and consequent representations of those children.