Emphasizing reintegration to a family context is felt to have been the most important factor in transition to civilian life. In the current context of renewed civil war, this facilitated their protection from re-recruitment. Supporting a broad, flexible community based network for reintegration that includes attention to psychosocial well-being, traditional practices and individually appropriate social and economic roles. The table below summarizes the final statistics. The children will not be willing to go back to their communities because they will not be accepted, perhaps due to atrocities committed.
Child soldiers require psychological assistance only feasible through specialized centres.
Vocational preparation is only feasible in a special centre. Their surviving family members or relatives are too poor to take the child soldier back. Civilian schools will not manage disciplining child soldiers and they will be a bad influence on other children. Moreover, centres are easily targeted for re-recruitment.