Children at war

1. Children at war

2. It's a small world after all : child soldiers around the globe

3. The underlying causes

4. How children are recruited into war

5. Turning a child into a soldier

6. The implications of children on the battlefield

7. The new children of terror

8. Preventing child soldiers

9. Fighting children

10. Turning a soldier back into a child

11. Looking ahead

Appendix : Optional protocol to the Convention on the rights of the child on the involvement of children in armed conflict.