“I am delighted to endorse this well-drafted and comprehensive publication ‘Children Affected by Maritime Piracy: A Handbook for Maritime Security Sector Actors‘ which is filling an important information and advocacy gap in the maritime sector. I am aware of the exhaustive efforts that have gone into finalising this peer-reviewed publication and the team at The Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative should be congratulated for their tenacity in its delivery. Specifically, I was struck by the plain-English sample Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for reporting human rights abuses against children and identification of indicators for traumatic stress in children, to highlight just two areas of the publication’s coverage. A must-read for all maritime security sector actors.”