Recovery, Rehabilitation & Reintegration of the “Lost” Children Living and Serving Under the Islamic State
"Hundreds of thousands of children around the world have been seduced and forced into being child soldiers and cadres in the service of armed and violent groups. Many have been successfully treated using a combination of individual, family and community interventions that relied on combinations of expressive, cognitive and behavioral therapies as well as play, song, art and dance mixed in with culturally indigenous cleansing and healing rituals. Is there a possibility of the same for the children of ISIS—the Iraqi and Syrian boys and girls seduced and forced into slavery and violence; raped; beaten and tricked into serving the brutal non-Islamic State?"
Speckhard, Anne (March 29, 2017). Recovery, Rehabilitation & Reintegration of the “Lost” Children Living and Serving Under the Islamic State. ICSVE Brief Reports.