Publication

This issue begins with an overview of the legal frameworks currently in place to protect children in conflict and how the many different international agencies working to protect children could be better coordinated. Authors examine ways in which the particular needs of schoolchildren, girls and young mothers should be addressed and explain which programs have succeeded and why. The issue concludes by challenging traditional concepts of childhood and warns of the danger of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programs that fail to take into account the circumstances which lead children to participate in armed groups and forces.