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PRIO has carried out a data mapping exercise of key indicators for children in conflict since 1997, as well as some basic analysis of the main risk factors.
This research is used to inform Save the Children's Protecting Children in Conflict strand of work, and forms part of a flagship report for the organization, which was presented at the Munic Security Summit in February 2018.
The mapping provides an overview of the patterns of armed conflict, number of children affected by armed conflict, child mortality in conflict zones, sexual violence against children, as well as the prevalence of child soldiers.
PRIO Data Reveals One in Six Children Live in a Conflict Zone
This week Save the Children launched its new report Stop the War on Children: The Forgotten Ones. The report is based on PRIO's annual mapping of children in armed conflict.
Record Number of Children at Risk of Being Recruited by Armed Actors
Today, Save the Children launched its new report Stop the War on Children: A crisis of recruitment. The report is based on a new mapping of children at risk of being recruited or used in armed conflict conducted at PRIO, as well an update of the yearly estimation of children living in conflict zones. The findings are alarming. In 2020, approximately 337 million children, or more than 1 in 8 children, were living in a conflict zone in which one or more actors recruited children. This is the highest recorded number of children at risk of being recruited by armed actors.
Syria and Yemen Top Statistic on Number of Children at Risk of Recruitment by Armed Actors
Save the Children's report Stop the War on Children: A crisis of recruitment shows that, in 2020, almost all children in Syria and Yemen were at risk of recruitment by armed actors.
More Than 70 Million 0–5-Year-Olds Have Only Known Conflict, PRIO Research in Save the Children Report Shows
Save the Children has released its 2020 report on children in conflict. PRIO researchers have contributed to the report three years in a row. In 2020 Gudrun Østby, Siri Aas Rustad and Andreas Forø Tollefsen all lent their expertise again.
Children Affected by Armed Conflict, 1990–2021
Conflict Trends
Children at Risk of Being Recruited by Armed Groups, 1990–2020
Journal Article in Children & Society
Children Affected by Armed Conflict, 1990–2020
Conflict Trends
Children at Risk of Being Recruited for Armed Conflict, 1990–2020
Conflict Trends
1 in 8 Children Are at Risk of Being Recruited by Armed Actors
Popular Article in PRIO Blog
Children at Risk of Wartime Sexual Violence, 1990–2019
Conflict Trends
Protection of Education in Conflict Zones – a Step in the Right Direction
Popular Article in PRIO Blog
72 Million Children Are at Risk for Sexual Violence in Conflict. What Can Be Done?
Popular Article in PRIO Blog
Children Affected by Armed Conflict, 1990–2018
Conflict Trends
Children Affected by Armed Conflict, 1990–2019
Conflict Trends
Children and Armed Conflict: What Existing Data Can Tell Us
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New Mapping of Children Affected by Armed Conflict
Popular Article in PRIO blog
Children Affected by Armed Conflict, 1990–2017
Conflict Trends
Children Affected by Armed Conflict, 1990–2016
Conflict Trends
