Preventing the use of child soldiers, preventing genocide / Roméo A. Dallaire and Shelly Whitman.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Dallaire, Roméo, author.

Contributor:

Whitman, Shelly.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations.

Local Subjects:

United Nations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (4 pages)

Contained In:

UN Chronicle Vol. 52, no. 2, p. 49-52 52:2<49 1564-3913

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : United Nations, 2015.

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text file

Summary:

We are living in an era in which the level of human suffering as a result of intra-State conflict seems to be escalating exponentially. The essential challenge remains how to create the political impetus for timely, non-selective responses to human suffering (MacFarlane and Weiss, 2000). At the very heart of the human suffering we are witnessing the plight of vulnerable populations, and most notably children. Of all the threats that define contemporary conflict, the use of child soldiers presents one of the farthest-reaching and most disturbing trends today. If in the past children were made to fight in spite of their youth, they are now being made to fight because of their youth.

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