Talk:Rehabilitation and reintegration of child soldiers

Jprussak (talk) 03:11, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

--Peer Review from Jordyne Prussak: Rehabilitation and reintegration of child soldiers-- Before reading this Wikipedia page, I was hoping to find the following sections, or information, in the Wikipedia Page:

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1.	Definitions of rehabilitation and reintegration as they apply to child soldiers 2.	Policies and Organizations associated with rehabilitation, especially for child soldiers 3.	 History behind efforts for rehabilitation 4.	Where/examples of rehabilitation efforts 5.	Information on child soldiers For the lead section, I think there should be more information or definitions about what rehabilitation and reintegration efforts for child soldiers looks like. Without general rehabilitation information, the content was kind of difficult to follow. A standardized definition and an overview of rehabilitation and reintegration for child soldiers will help to focus and lead the article. I found that this article disproportionately focused on female child soldiers rather than both male and female child soldiers. While the specific components of the article pertaining to female child soldiers were interesting and relevant, there should be more information on male child soldiers (if available) to make a more balanced, encyclopedic article. Also, even for the female recruit section, there was not much information on specific reintegration efforts for girl child soldiers. By adding a section for boy child soldiers, there can be information added on the similarities and differences taken in rehabilitating female versus male child soldiers. I thought the case studies were relevant for the Wikipedia article. However, some of the sentences sounded more like opinions than facts. Additionally, the citations need to be checked because they did not always seem consistent or correct I think this article would greatly benefit from adding a section that included past and present organizations and policies or legislation focused on rehabilitating and reintegrating child soldiers. Additionally, I think it would be valuable to have a section describing the history behind the beginnings, successes, and failures of reintegration and rehabilitation efforts for child soldiers. After reading this article, I do not think that I would have associated its content with its name because there was not much information on general ideologies or processes of rehabilitation and reintegration of child soldiers. I think adding the above sections would help to alleviate this problem and provide a more comprehensive view/understanding of the topic. Major Takeaways: focus more on reintegration and rehabilitation in general and with respect to child soldiers; discuss male and female child soldier information; provide definitions were applicable; make sure that sentences are cited correctly and consistently; make sure sentences are stated in encyclopedic tons and as facts rather than in opinionated tone that wound more like commentary.

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Peer Review from Kevin Cheng
The article begins with a quote from the International Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers to describe their desire to end the practice of using child soldiers. It then goes on to discuss who is defined as a child soldier, their roles as a part of militaries, and the process of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration. This seems to encapsulate many of the basic and immediate concerns and questions people would raise when considering child soldiers, so in that regard the authors have done a good job. I would offer however that the lead could benefit from being made more concise and having the parts that I identified more well connected. The lead would perhaps be better served by opening with some context as to the frequency of child soldiers being used throughout history and today and the successes or failures to address this issue.

Since the conditions, treatment, and reintegration of female soldiers is mentioned, it seems natural to make some appeal to include a section on the consequences of serving as a male recruit. More generally, a new section or greater mention of how being a child soldier differs from being a traumatized adult soldier would be appreciated. To develop on this line of thought further, the discussion of mental health, PTSD, socialization, destructive behaviour, and other issues that child soldiers are particularly susceptible to or correlated with seems to be a natural progression for the article.

For the case studies section, Colombia and South Sudan could use short summaries of the context prior to the war and during. Also, if they exist, the conflicts discussed in this article should be linked to external articles on the topics. The most salient or specific characteristics of serving as a child soldier in each of the case studies could be brought to the fore, to make it more clear why they are particularly noteworthy.

There could be sections dedicated specifically to efforts being made by local or international actors to intervene or respond to cases of conflicts with child soldiers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kchengfm (talk • contribs) 07:23, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Copy edit, and more
I am currently copy editing Children in the military. It has a large section on Rehabilitation and reintegration of child soldiers. I am moving much of it wholesale to this article. I will then drastically slim Children in the military, referring and linking to this article as the main one. Once I have done that I will return to this article, work through the additional material to integrate it properly, and give a thorough copy edit. Please bear with me while this is happening. Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:37, 22 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Or anyone else. I have finally got around to this. It would be helpful if someone could keep an eye on my edits. Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:50, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Yep, following them. Thanks.