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Simon Reich

Wargo on Child Soldiers

11/5/2007 Simon Reich

Alec Wargo, a Program Officer with the United Nation’s Office of the Special Representative for Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict, spoke to a packed house during a Ford Institute lecture on October 31, 2007.

Wargo described his office’s bureaucratic maneuvering and fieldwork, providing a historical sketch of the efforts leading to UN Security Council Resolution 1539, detailing progress in protecting children in armed conflict situations, and laying out future challenges in this area.

Some of the good news relates to progress made in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

One of the vexing challenges facing the UN on this issue concerns nomenclature. With a precise definition of “armed conflict” elusive in UN circles, key actors must resort to creative locutions.

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