Skuse David
Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, UK, email
Int Psychiatry. 2010 Jul 1;7(3):54-55. eCollection 2010 Jul.
Over the past 20 years the number of children recruited into armed conflict, as combatants, spies, labourers and sex slaves, has increased substantially (Wessells, 2009). In this issue, we focus on the research that has been done in recent years to identify the extent of this problem and, in particular, the efforts that are being made to discover the most effective ways of rehabilitating former child soldiers into society.