...How does the author define “child soldier”? When examining the use of child soldiers and children in warfare it is important to know what exactly defines a child soldier. The author of Children at War, Peter Singer, defines a child soldier as any person under eighteen years of age who is engaged in deadly combat or combat support as part of an armed force or group This definition may be acceptable for certain cultures, but in many others, the eighteen-year cut-off is simply the upper limit and the number of soldiers whose ages range from ten to seventeen is a much larger percentage. This barbaric war technique not only takes away the adolescence of the kids, but it also changes the scope of their remaining adulthood life. One boy from Sierra...
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...War. It is a major problem society faces every day. Throughout history, the United States has been involved in many illustrious wars in and out of the country such as Civil War to Afghanistan War. With respect, the country’s capital, Washington D.C., honors these wars through memorials such as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and through parks such as the Korean War Memorial Park. One of many wars in which the United States honors is the Vietnam War, a war with heavy outcomes. One of many outcomes of the Vietnam war was Amerasians. Amerasians, or also known as Vietnamese Amerasians, are children of the Vietnam War. They were not labeled towards all children; rather, they were specifically children who had one American parent, who was most likely...
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...Children that are affected by war crimes have their lives turned upside down but they never give up to reach the peace they always sought. Looking back at Disney’s Peter Pan the lost boys were those who fought off pirates and crocodiles before flying off to Never Never Land. The same goes for the youth in Africa where they sought refugee, and fled the camps by whatever means necessary. In the book What Is The What Valentino describes his journey to America to be a miracle, having gone through a dark road which he finally reached the light of. It was because of The Lost Boys Foundation that many lives have been turned around and children have been saved. During the civil war in Sudan in which over 2 million people had died, children were left orphaned; and were living in camps that weren’t run efficiently. Nearly 30,000 children left the camps on a journey to find a place to call home, they faced attacks from animals, starvation, illness’s, even attacks from Soldiers their, yet approximately 11,000 survived. The foundation has made dreams come through one change at a time. Many of these adolescents have not been exposed to what is so accustomed to us; spoons, forks, cell phones, and TV’s. “It’s a group that’s lost in time,” says Sasha Chanoff an American at the camp who prepares the children for their journey to America. The articles show that The Lost Boys Foundation is an effective organization that does their best to assist refugees. According to Mary-Jayne Mckay CBS reporter...
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...During World War II children lost a lot of things. The things that really affected them were illness, death, injuries, and evacuation. I think they should not have had to go through what they went through. The kids that went through the war were scared, hungry, and in danger. Most parents did not have enough time to spend with their kids because they were busy trying to keep themselves safe and their family safe. About two million kids were evacuated. Different kids had different experiences evacuating. They had to adjust to their surroundings and most kids did not have anyone they could trust. Some places were not safe enough for the kids to stay and a lot of kids did not get a good education. Some schools were bombed down and some children...
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...During World War II, fear and panic was rampant in Europe. Many people, Germans included, were terrified of Adolf Hitler. Many people were very worried about children, especially Jewish children, who were living in these Nazi-occupied countries. Adolf Hitler a German ruler who grew to power in response to Kristallnacht, a committee called The British Jewish Refugee Committee appealed to and asked to provide safe transport and passage for Jewish children to England. From Britain they could then travel to America, Belgium, or Holland, or stay in England. The British Jewish Refugee Committee arranged for the children to live in England with sponsors. The Kindertransportation Association exists Now to help raise awareness of the Kindertransport and also connect survivors and their children to other survivors and their host families.As Hitler's power grew, so did his...
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...Hi babe In the graphic novel, “Persepolis”, Marjane Satrapi brings to light the devastations in her life in Tehran during the Iranian revolution of 1973 as well as the eight year war with Iraq. She was forced upon a life surrounded by Middle Eastern conflicts and policies that became unavoidable. After Satrapi and her parents came back from their vacation one day, they later find out from her grandma that Iraq and Iran were at war with one another, having the country’s strict government policies, military forces, and eliminating all those who protested against it. Because we can see what is happening from an innocent point of view during Satrapi’s life, the pain and violence that was expressed throughout the novel is based upon the real suffering...
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...Ever since the existence of war, it has been a dispute if children should be allowed to be involved with war. Children being brought forcefully to the feet of war has been a rising problem within countries; therefore, teaching children to use weapons and using them as human bombs is a resort some countries’ militants don’t have a problem using, leading to heinous effects for their militants and others. The consequences of this are clear and all around them that they should be able to find their devastating results all over the news with children used as human bombs, human shields, nurses, soldiers, and so on. The effects range from lost lives, lost of trust, and physical and mental damage. Within many areas, the possible causes of this are that militants find it easier to abduct children and manipulate them. This...
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...Child Soldiers: Criminals or Victims? Children are known as the innocence of society. The ever growing problem of child soldiers is a saddening and striking one. They are clearly victims of a much larger game ran by militias and corrupt governments, they are not wrong, but are wronged. Children are pushed and nudged into taking up arms through different ways .In war torn regions, Children are grown up and raised with the plague of war, it is all they know. They are not accustomed to regular childhoods, and they have no opportunities, so children tend to follow what they see, which is war and bloodshed. Militia leaders in third world countries tend to drug children and force them into being soldiers, upon refusal they even threaten and kill...
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...PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS AMONG WAR-AFFECTED ADOLESCENTS IN POST-CONFLICT NORTHERN UGANDA Introduction This research journal conducted by John D. McMullen, Paul S. O’Callaghan, Justin A. Richard, John G. Eakin and Harry Rafferty is to measure the effect after 4 years end of war in northern Uganda on the prevalence and consider of mental health of children and adolescent. During the war against insurgent (Lord’s resistance army), a large number of children and adolescent are been a victims on extreme war violent and they are reach for traumatic experience same affected by adult. The psychological distress is the serious impact for them and almost of which directly involved in war found for Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) dispute for longer duration after war when they recall back the bad memories on their horrific moments on the war. Some of them been abducted and recruited as soldiers and some of girls forced to involved in non-combat role and being subjected to sexual violent. They are continuously exposed to atrocities which influence them to suffering with psychology disorder. Summary The conflict in northern Uganda is most tragic conflict with the death victims reach a numbers of 1000 per weeks. A children and adolescent is affected group which up to 60000 of them recruited as soldiers and some being sexual violent with almost of them suffer with post-traumatic stress symptom. Significantly, most of them effected due exposed to war due traumatic events witness such...
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...million children have died while in conflict, about six million have been seriously injured, and more than ten million have been left in severe trauma in the past ten years. These children usually range from ages 14-17, but some have been found to be eight years old. Some kids are forced to fight, being abducted from their community. Others join in conflict, fighting back for what they have lost and hoping that fighting will resolve their issues. Either way, children shouldn’t be in these dangerous situations. The matter of child soldiers seems to be a major problem as of today, but children have been used in wars ever since 1998. In fact, at least 36 countries around the world have used child soldiers. Most countries that use child soldiers concentrate in Africa and South Asia. In conflict, kids are subject to abuse and, even worse, sexual assault. This shouldn’t be happening. It isn’t right...
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...Linking War Child to Globalization and the Marginalization of Refugees Throughout the year, there have been several discussions and research on various specific events that have all resulted with the displacement of a group of people from a specific region or country. The world labels these people as refugees, which has started a trend of marginalization and inequality of refugees. Refugees are unable to stay in their homeland due to economic, social, and political problems that are consistently taking place in developing countries. When looking more in depth into specific displacement events, more times than not, these issues are very radical such as mass genocide or civil war. With no stable form of government or homeland, refugees have no say in whom or how an outside force(s) deals with their rights. Through the internet and other forms of technology, the spread of information is and has been at an all time high. The stable increase in the ease to access knowledge has drastically increased the awareness of human rights violations and displacement of people. Steger states, “Globalization is a set of social processes that lead to the social condition of globality, through the growing consciousness of global connectivity.” This idea of “globality” ties in the creation of global networks and how this has expanded social relations between countries. In these global networks, there are non-government organizations that have been established to assist refugees with...
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...and her Children in an Australian setting while still conforming to the original social and political commentary of the play. In the modernised Mother Courage Enoch made crucial decisions in order to comply with the variety of techniques used by Brecht, he has incorporated music, narration, gestus, frequent change of character, the stage was minimal, as were the props and amount of characters. The play, like the majority of Brecht plays, has a strong moral, social and political meaning, which provokes a reaction amongst the audience; Enoch has reinforced this message throughout the play leaving the audience with a similar impact and the questioning of their own morality. The Wesley Enoch version of Mother Courage and Her Children focuses on an aboriginal woman and her three children during a war over land and minerals. At the beginning of the play the advantages of the war are highlighted; Mother Courage is with her family and to her the war is a profitable event, which does not effect her as long as the ‘Bungoo’. In the beginning scenes, although Courage tries to hide it, it is evident that she has a strong relationship with her children; she is very protective, loving and attached to her three children. Throughout the play as the families desire for money increases their strength and independence decreases and her children’s vulnerability results in Mother Courage losing her children to the ongoing war, deep sympathy is felt throughout the audience and the anti-war message...
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...“I would like to give you a message. Please do your best to tell the world what is happening to us, the children. So that other children don’t have to pass through this violence.”-Mary, Age 13. Children, like Mary, from Northern Uganda, have fough tin wars for centuries.They are forced to become soldiers in a war that they rarely understand, let alone believe in. These children are labeled as criminals because murder is murder, but the effect of war causes people, and especially children to do unspeakable crimes. That is why is is important for readers to understand what happened how children are forced to be soldiers and why their story’s need to be told. First off, it is important to know how children are manipulated into picking up a gun....
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...until the RUF invasion, the group was relatively unknown. The increase in RUF activity was largely due to both the fight for control of Sierra Leone’s mineral resources (a dominant factor driving the RUF for most of the war), and the impact of external influences, especially the spread of the Liberian civil war into Sierra Leone. The military strength of the RUF was increased by considerable support from the NPFL, formed by Charles Taylor, one of the warring factions in the Liberian civil war, Burkinabè mercenaries, and the provision of military training to RUF fighters from Libya. Liberia, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Libya reportedly also provided the RUF with military equipment. Much of the RUF’s original ideology was lost among RUF fighters themselves, since a large proportion were in fact Liberian rebels fighting for their own cause. Moreover, any initial popular support that the group had enjoyed in the past was undermined by its use of intimidation and terror tactics. The RUF carried out massive forced recruitment and numbered over 24,000 by 1999. A large number of RUF officers were under 18 and most of the higher ranking officers shared very little of the group’s initial ideology. For most of the war the RUF’s leadership was personalized in its founder, Foday Sankoh, who controlled all RUF policies...
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...During wars, everyone is affected, but mainly children are affected. Children have to move their location. There will be limited resources for children. Also children's education will be affected. Children are affected more by dramatizing events. Children might have to move location. One of the main reasons children would have to move is because they could live near where the war is taking place. Also family could play apart in the war. Another point is children could end up being separated from their family. This can change how the child looks at things. Children would also have limited resources. The water could become contaminated or there is no water around. The food that farmers grow and factories produce would go to soldiers to...
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