Introduction
Armed conflicts and wars around the world have forcibly
displaced millions of people [1]. The majority are forced to
displace within their country or across the border to
neighbouring states, with only a small fraction arriving in
Western countries to seek asylum [1, 2]. In Colombia, more
than four decades of an armed internal conflict have, to date,
forcibly displaced at least 3.7 million people (up to 11.6 %
of the population), currently making it the country with the
largest population of internally displaced in the world [1].
Worldwide, nearly 25 % of the displaced are children
[1]. In Colombia, children make up more than 50 % of the
internally displaced population [3]. Exposure to wartime
trauma can have severe consequences for child mental
health also for very young children [4–6]