This section invites you to step inside the reality of armed conflict, to see what it feels and looks like from the perspective of young people who are students, soldiers, refugees, victims and witnesses of war’s violence.

These are not sophisticated drawings and paintings. Many pictures were drawn by a child who had never before held a paintbrush. But that does not diminish their strength. Instead their power comes from lived experience. In their artwork and stories young people invite us to accompany them, to stand alongside as they provide a map of what it means to be a child soldier, to be present inside a genocide or to find dignity as a refugee.