Strengthening Collaborative and Dialogic Responses to Child Recruitment and Violence
When we speak about the recruitment and involvement of children and adolescents in contexts of violence, we enter a field that is complex, painful, and deeply relational. Recruitment is never one single story. It takes different forms across the world, shaped by history, territory, relationships, poverty, exclusion, displacement, organized violence, and everyday life.
This five-session Mutual Learning Thematic Series invites professionals, community actors, governments, organizations, and other stakeholders to slow down and think together. Rather than offering technical prescriptions, the series creates dialogic spaces where professional knowledge, lived experience, and community wisdom can meet.
Together, we will explore how to visualize, understand, prevent, protect, and respond collaboratively to contexts of violence and recruitment affecting children, adolescents, and young people.
Sessions
A conversation on making visible what is often invisible in children’s experiences of violence, displacement, and recruitment.
A reflection on observatories not only as technical mechanisms, but as spaces for dialogue, shared meaning, and coordinated action.
A session on prevention, community resilience, protective relationships, and working with families and communities rather than for them.
A conversation on protection, reintegration, trust-building, dignity, and community-based support in contexts marked by violence, gangs, trafficking, and exclusion.
A final session on professional and inter-institutional collaboration, shared responsibility, and sustaining dialogue in complex and uncertain contexts.