Child Soldier Reintegration in Sudan: A Practitioner’s Field Experience

This case study provides a contemporary insight to identities, recruitment and reintegration of children in Sudan. The chapter examines ways in which young people become associated with armed forces and groups in Darfur, and the community dynamics and social milieu that may contribute to their decision-making. The chapter looks at the structural basis for a concerted and nationally owned Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) process in lieu of two pivotal peace agreements, lessons learned, and how the reintegration of militarized children across a geographically vast, demographically disparate and politically contentious landscape may be enhanced by local-level child protection mechanisms, affording individual follow-up care for individual demobilized children without undermining the core principles of an inclusive, community-based approach.