Research on child soldiers in 1998 revealed that an estimated 300,000 children or more under the age of eighteen were fighting in more than thirty armed conflicts around the world. Although most ...

and upwards of 48,000 male and female children associated with armed groups (colloquially “child soldiers”). We will extend the first intergenerational study of war in Sub-Saharan Africa (R01HD073349) ...

Instead of prosecuting former child soldiers, both the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Court have focused on bringing to justice those responsible for recruiting and ...