DDR resources - Child soldiers (see also under gender)
UN Special Rep for Children & Armed Conflict
UNDDA Disarmament & Children
UNICEF Position Statement on Child Soldiers
Children Associated with Fighting Forces (CAFF) in Sudan: Rapid Situation Analysis for Demobilization & Reintegration of CAFF in Government-Controlled Areas, May 2004 (377kb)
OCHA IRIN Web Special on Child Soldiers
Geneva Humanitarian Forum, links to reports on child soldiers in Africa
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Children in War
Tercier Holst-Roness, Florence, Violence against girls in Africa during armed conflicts and crises, Conference on the African Child: Violence Against Girls in Africa, Addis Ababa, 11-12 May 2006 (310kb)
World Bank, Verhey, Beth, Child Soldiers: Preventing, Demobilizing and Reintegrating, 2001 (345kb)
USAID, Agborsangaya, Ozong, Policy dialogue to advance the process of child soldier demobilization: final report for task order, educational assessment - demobilization of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Report prepared for USAID, August 2000 (240kb)
Amnesty International
Burundi: Child soldiers - the challenge of demobilisation, March 2004 (273kb)
Human Rights Watch
Recruitment of Ex-Child Soldiers in Côte d'Ivoire (75kb)
How to Fight, How to Kill: Child Soldiers in Liberia, 2004 (400kb)
Forgotten Fighters: Child Soldiers in Angola, 2003 (887kb)
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Child & Youth Protection & Development Unit, Fact Sheet, July 2005 (279kb)
Save the Children Fund, Child Protection in Emergencies Policy Brief, 2005 (524kb)
Save the Children Fund, Reaching all: core principles for working with children associated with armed groups and forces, 2005 (166kb)
Save the Children Fund, A Fighting Chance: Guidelines and implications for programmes involving children associated with armed groups and armed forces, 2004 (244kb)
Save the Children Fund, Crossing the Border: The Demobilisation and Reintegration of Rwandan Boys and Girls Associated with Armed Groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2004 (570kb)
Save the Children Fund, When Children Affected by War Go Home: Lessons Learned from Liberia, 2003 (79kb)
Save the Children Fund, Child Soldiers Field Guide, 2001 (483kb)
Save the Children Fund, Hobson, M., Forgotten Casualties of War: Girls in Armed Conflict, 2005 (774kb)
Save the Children Fund, Jareg, Elizabeth, Crossing Bridges and Negotiating Rivers - Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Children Associated with Armed Forces, Save the Children (Norway), 2005 (111kb)
Save the Children Fund, McConnan, Isobel & Sarah Uppard, Children Not Soldiers, Guidelines for Working with Child Soldiers and Children Associated with Fighting Forces, Save the Children (UK) 2002 (131kb)
Save the Children Fund, Verhey, Beth, Going Home: Demobilising and reintegrating child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Save the Children, 2003 (311kb)
Coalition to Stop the use of Child Soldiers
Child Soldiers Bibliography, Jan 2005 (262kb)
McKay et al, Girls formerly associated with fighting forces and their children: returned and neglected, 2006 (137kb)
Bellagio Conference Report: Girl Mothers in Fighting Forces and Their Post-War Reintegration in Southern and Western Africa, 2005 (290kb)
Child Soldiers and Disarmament, Demobilisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration in West Africa Survey, 2005 (280kb)
Castelli, Lucia & Elena Locatelli & Mark Canavera, Psycho-Social Support for War Affected Children in Northern Uganda: Lessons Learned, 2005 (525kb)
Morales, Fernando Jiovani Arias, The Psycho-Social Care of Demobilized Child Soldiers in Colombia: Conceptual and Methodological Aspects, 2005 (132kb)
Barenbaum, Joshua et al, Children Exposed to War - Practice and Policy Initiatives, 2004 (230kb)
Honwana, Alcinda, Local knowledge in the Post-War Healing and Reintegration of War-Affected Children in Angola, 1998 (178kb)
War-Affected Children
McKay, Susan & Dyan Mazuranra, Girls in Militaries, Paramilitaries, and Armed Opposition Groups (180kb)
McKay, Susan & Dyan Mazurana, Where are the Girls? Girls in fighting forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone and Mozambique: Their lives during and after war, 2004 (591kb)
Mazurana, Dyan & Khristopher Carlson, From Combat to Community: Women and Girls of Sierra Leone, Women Waging Peace, January 2004 (1mb)
Children & Armed Conflict Unit, Essex University
Girls With Guns : An Agenda on Child Soldiers for "Beijing Plus Five" (74kb)
Child Soldier links on Relief Web
International Peace Research Institute project on child soldiers
Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, Youth speak out: new voices on the protection and participation of young people affected by armed conflict, 2005 (780kb)
Aird, Sarah et al, Mozambique: The Battle Continues for Former Child Soldiers, Youth Advocate Program International, July 2001 (72kb)
Malan, Mark, Disarming and Demobilising Child Soldiers: the Underlying Challenges, African Security Review Vol. 9, No. 5/6 (110kb)
Veale, Angela, From Child Soldier to Ex-Fighter: Female Fighters, Demobilisation and Reintegration in Ethiopia, ISS Monograph No 85, 2003
Veale, Angela & Aki Stavrou Violence, Reconciliation and Identity: The Reintegration of the Lord's Resistance Army Child Abductees in Northern Uganda, ISS Monograph No 92, 2003
