Early Warning to Early Action

Children’s recruitment and use in violence is a defining element of most modern conflict globally. Understanding the risk factors that lead to recruitment and use is thus important for conflict prevention and sustainable global peace and security more broadly. There is currently no early warning system focused on recruitment and use, and most conflict-based warning systems do not employ indicators related to children or their recruitment and use within their conflict analysis. Since 2019, the Dallaire Institute has been working to fill this gap and shift early warning to early action.