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Rebels from the Lord’s Resistance Army making their way to a camp in southern Sudan. The group forcibly recruits children. EPA/Stephen Morrison

Why some rebel groups force kids to fight: it depends on how they are funded

Roos van der Haer, Leiden University; Beth Elise Whitaker, University of North Carolina – Charlotte, and Christopher Michael Faulkner, US Naval War College

Natural resources are an important factor in explaining why some rebel groups forcibly recruit children into their ranks.

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