On this page we have collected some useful links with information about Child Soldiers.

Rehabilitation

• Field Guide to Child Soldier Programs in Emergencies
  The Field Guide to Child Soldier Programs in Emergencies is intended for Save the Children staff and partners designing and implementing either a program focused fully on child soldiers, or a child soldiers-focused component of a broader program for war-affected children. This field guide is meant to be useful both for staff that have limited experience with child soldier programming and for experienced staff that wish to improve their understanding of particular aspects of child soldier programs.
• The Impact of Armed Conflict on Child Develpopment
  - Health and Nutrition
  - Promoting Psychological Recovery and Social Reintegration
  - Education :Investing in The Future of Children
  
• Incorporation of best practices in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes for children
• Interventions for Children Associated with Armed Groups
• The Psychosocial Care of Demobilized Child Soldiers in Colombia
• Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Children Associated Wtih Armed Forces

Orgnisations

• The Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict strives to end violations against children in armed conflicts and to guarantee their rights. They strategically collect and disseminate information on violations against children in conflicts in order to influence key decision-makers to create and implement programs and policies that effectively protect children.
• The Children and Armed Conflict Unit aims to keep the issue of the impact of armed conflict on children in the public and institutional eye through its web-site, which provides accessible information on conflicts and relevant international standards and norms as well as good practices relating to children.
• The Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) is a global network that disseminates information about the Convention on the Rights of the Child and child rights amongst non-governmental organisations (NGOs), United Nations agencies, inter-governmental organisation (IGOs), educational institutions, and other child rights experts.
• Childsoldiers.net is the website of the Belgian organisation Childsoldiers/ Kindsoldaten vzw,which was established by Belgian journalist Els De Temmerman in the year 2000. Its objective is to help ex-child soldiers in Uganda to re-enter mainstream society by means of a school-fee sponsoring programme.
• UN's webpage concerning children and armed conflict
• The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers works to prevent the recruitment and use of children as soldiers, to secure their demobilisation and to ensure their rehabilitation and reintegration into society.
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Articles & Reports

• The Mental-Health Needs of Child Soldiers in Uganda:A Case Study of Structural Violence
• The Psychological Impact of Political Violence on Children
• Mental states of adolescents exposed to war in Uganda: finding appropriate methods of rehabilitation
• When children affected by war go home - Lessons learned from Liberia
• Child soldiers and Disarmament, Demobilization, Rehabilitation and Reintegration in West Africa
• The Voices of Girl Child Soldier
• Child Soldiers in the Philippines
• Experiences and psychosocial impact of the El Salvador civil war on child soldiers
• Disarmament, rehabilitation and integration of Rwandan child soldiers
• Easy Prey: Child Soldiers in Liberia

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