They are recruiting hackers both before and after they become involved in criminal and industrial espionage activities are mobilizing them on behalf of the state.

However, insurgents are recruiting combatants, including child soldiers, in Liberia, mainly to fight in Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea.

Increasingly, today's conflicts rely upon child soldiers,3 who are commonly recruited and used against their will, through abduction, kidnapping, enslavement and coercion or intimidation of their parents or guardians.