STRIVE Preventing and Responding to Violence against JUVENILE Children by Terrorist and Violent Extremist Groups

11 (b)).6 Exploitation The use of the child in work or other activities for the benefit of others and to the detriment of the child’s physical or mental health, development, and education. [...] This is due to difficulties accessing, collecting and analyzing relevant data, especially in the context of conflict, to the political sensitivity of terrorism, and to gaps and challenges in the methods of data collection, situation analysis, and information sharing. [...] 24 TARGETED BY TERRORISTS: CHILD RECRUITMENT, EXPLOITATION AND REINTEGRATION IN INDONESIA, IRAQ AND NIGERIA and young adults with material incentives and promises of a way out of misery, starvation, and lack of future prospects.22 Findings across the social sciences also indicate the role of social and individual factors in influencing child trajectories into criminal and armed groups, including t. [...] For the sake of clarity, the present research defines these terms as follows:64 “Rehabilitation” is used to indicate medical and psychological care and identification of the re- quired legal and social services to be provided to child victims of recruitment and exploitation by terrorist groups to help them recover from physical and psychological harm.65 “Reintegration” refers to the safe process. [...] Children’s association with State-aligned armed groups (Nigeria)67 and criminal groups (Indonesia), as contrasting cases, was addressed in the study and in the course of the data collection and helped to provide a better grasp of the specificity of terrorist groups and to appreciate shared features.