Child Soldiers: From Recruitment to Reintegration

DILLI RAJ BINADI Development Worker in the Area of Child Protection, Nepal NEIL BOOTHBY Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health and Director for the Program on Forced Migration and Health at Columbia University, USA RYAN BURGESS Education Consultant with the Inter-American Development Bank based in Trinidad and Tobago MYRIAM DENOV Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at McGill University, USA PRATISHA DEWAN Development Worker in the Area of Child Protection in Nepal SCOTT GATES Research Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) at International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Norway, and Professor of Political Science, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU) PATRICK HALTON Child Protection Specialist for UNICEF based in Manila, Philippines WENCHE HAUGE Senior Researcher at International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Norway JARAMEY MCMULLIN Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK KRIJN PETERS Rural Development Sociologist at the Centre for Development Studies, Swansea University, UK MATS UTAS Associate Professor at the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities LOTTE VERMEIJ Ph.D. Candidate at Disaster Studies at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and an affiliate of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) STEVEN A. ZYCK NATO office in Virginia, USA

This book examines the complex and under-researched relationship between recruitment experiences and reintegration outcomes for child soldiers. It looks at time spent in the group, issues of cohesion, identification, affiliation, membership and the post demobilization experience of return, and resettlement.This book examines the complex and under-researched relationship between recruitment experiences and reintegration outcomes for child soldiers. It looks at time spent in the group, issues of cohesion, identification, affiliation, membership and the post demobilization experience of return, and resettlement.