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# Contents

- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Overview
  - 1.1 Children and violence
- 2 Violence in the home
  - 2.1 Violence towards children
  - 2.2 Children's violence
- 3 Violence between peers
  - 3.1 Bullying – children as victims
  - 3.2 Children as perpetrators
  - 3.3 Children as peacemakers – peer mediation
- 4 Violence within armed conflicts
  - 4.1 The effects of armed conflict on children
  - 4.2 Violence within communities
  - 4.3 Children and the armed forces
    - 4.3.1 Child soldiers in Sierra Leone, Burma and Uganda
    - 4.3.2 Children in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge
  - 4.4 Why shouldn't children fight?
  - 4.5 Strategies for reintegrating child soldiers
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements

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