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In the third section will outline the expressed experiences after the war, ordered, ie that both the burdens of children, as well as the coping-employment strategies on which they can draw for their lives again to survey design, will be identified. The available resources should be mentioned, both at the level of one's own person and the relationship with family, friends and the social environment.

Thereafter, it is important to know whether these strains on the physical and mental well-being of former child soldiers have had, whether the family life sustained negative or positive changes, and also whether the relationship with the social network under the situation ( ie war experiences as a soldier of the children) are suffering. It should also be determined whether stable contacts, the supportive, family and in the surrounding social network is working. There followed questions about the circumstances after the war and to data processing prospects.

41. Do you have contact with your family?
42. How is the relationship between your family and you?
43. How did you get into this program?
44. How were you welcomed?
45. How is your everyday life?
46. Did you find new friends?
47. Do you have someone here, who is important to you? If yes, why is he / she im-portant?
48. Do you trust someone of the professional helpers? Why?
49. What did you learn from them?
50. In was everything is terrible, somebody can participate in fighting: what do you dream about when you have bad dreams?
51. Were you ill or hurt during wartime?
52. Are there some events or memories of the war which still Torment you?
53. Are you often sad? Why?
54. Can the traditional healers help you now if you have difficulties? Can you trust them now?
55. Do your neighbors accept you now? If not, how do you deal with them?
56. What are your future desires:
- Regarding returning to your parents? Will they welcome you? What do you think?
- Regarding school?
- Regarding your occupation?
- Regarding your inner peace?

Here, the children have the opportunity of their lives "free of war" to present

57. How would your life be, if the war had not happened?

The former child soldiers should have the opportunity to interview the subjects about which, in this regard are important and current in the course were not taken up.

58. Do you have something else to tell me?

Since not all the recruitment of child soldiers "voluntarily" took place, are questions at the time of recruitment into the army or questions about experiences during the war made.

30. Were you Abducted? If yes, which group Abducted you?

31. Can you tell me your story, how you were Abducted?

32. What were you doing in the movement?

33. Do you know how to shoot?

34. Which types of weapons did you use?

35. Were you trained? If yes, how were you trained?

36. Did you take part in missions or fighting Raiding?

37. In was everything is terrible, somebody can participate in the fighting:

- Which problems did you suffer most from?

- Why was it so bad for you?

38. How was your everyday life in the war?

39. Did you see killing somebody?

40. What are you doing now?

This section will outline issues concerning the lives of former child soldiers from war to start. Of interest is primarily how the life in the family, the relationships between siblings, friends and the interaction of the former child soldiers to social network design.

Questions about family

1. How was your life in the family before the war broke out?
2. Who or what helped you when you had problems?
3. How did your family help you when you had problems?
4. What did you enjoy?
5. Whom did you feel close to? Why?
6. Could you speak with your father about everything? Why?
7. Could you speak with your mother about everything? Why?
8. How were you separated from your family?
9. How was the relationship between you and your siblings?
10. Did you do many things together? If yes, what did you do together?
11. Did you have to do everything your parents said or ordered? Were your parents very strict?
12. And if you did not obey or follow their orders, what happened then?
13. Did you experience physical violence in your family? Or did your parents beat you? If yes, which experiences?
14. And what was particularly bad?

Questions about the friends

15. Were your friends important to you? Why?
16. Did you (your friends and you) have fun?
17. How did they help you when you had problems?
18. Who or what helped you when you had difficulties?
19. Whom did you feel close to? Why?
20. Could you speak with your friends about everything?
21. How were you separated from your friends?

Questions about the social environment

22. Were you in school? If not, what were you doing? (What happened when you came back home without the things your parents expected youto have? Follow-up question about that particular trade)
23. Did you learn something at school that you can now use or need?
24. How many years were you in school?
25. How did you experience your neighborhood?
26. Did you have idols or heroes?
27. What impressed you about idols or heroes?
28. Did you believe in the traditional healers? If yes, why did you believe in them?
29. Could they help, when one had difficulties? If yes, how could they help this per-son?