Introduction to the Special Section on former child soldiers' rehabilitation: connecting individual and communal worlds

Why a Special Section on the rehabilitation processes of former child soldiers: children and adolescents in armed con£ict War and armed con£ict have had a huge impact on the lives of countless children
and young people throughout history, and up to today. During con£ict, children and their families are exposed to a series of extreme and potentially traumatising events, such as killings, massacres, rape,
torture, forced displacement, uprooting and separation from family members. This Special Section of Intervention elaborates the fate of a particular group of children a¡ected by armed con£ict: child soldiers (Van deVeer et al.,2006). (See also the Special Issue of Intervention on disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of child soldiers, November 2006 (vol.4, issue 3).