Two decades on: The enduring costs of childhood abduction for women in Uganda (opens in new tab)

Twenty years after the Lord's Resistance Army conflict ended in northern Uganda, women who were abducted as children during the war and subsequently released show significantly higher rates of depression and perceived stress, reduced social support, and heightened stress reactivity. In striking contrast, standard economic measures suggest rough parity with non-abducted peers. Recovery from conflict cannot be measured in income alone.