High Hopes, Grim Reality: Reintegration and the Education of Former Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone.

The article looks at the education of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone and compares the country's educational system before and after the civil war there. The psychological effects of their wartime service on former child soldiers includes feelings of guilt over their actions and long-term effects to their educational outcomes. Before the civil war the country was unable to meet the demand for education and after the war the government instituted programs to help students through accelerated learning and by discontinuing school costs so that children could enter regular schools.