New research is shedding light on factors driving recruitment of child soldiers in conflict zones. Citing a Ford Institute study, UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict Radhika Coomaraswamy recently stated, “there is a direct correlation between security at IDP camps and the recruitment of child …
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Child Soldiers and Glass Castles
It is laudable that the UN is addressing the serious problem of war-affected children in developing countries. But I wonder if there is a problem with conceptualizing “children and armed conflict” as a problem that is happening only out there, in the refugee camps and killing fields of Africa.
As …
Wargo on Child Soldiers
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 …
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Question for Karl Rove about Negotiations with Iran
This question was generated by student Group E in Cold War Rhetoric, an undergraduate course in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. The question was played for Karl Rove during his visit to a special meeting of the class on March 3, 2008.
In the students’ peer evaluation using a standardized rating rubric, […]
Question for Karl Rove about the Bush Library
This question was generated by student Group C in Cold War Rhetoric, an undergraduate course in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. The question was played for Karl Rove during his visit to a special meeting of the class on March 3, 2008.
In the students’ peer evaluation using a standardized rating rubric, […]
Question for Karl Rove about Iran’s Nuclear Program
This question was generated by student Group F in Cold War Rhetoric, an undergraduate course in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. The question was played for Karl Rove during his visit to a special meeting of the class on March 3, 2008.
In the students’ peer evaluation using a standardized rating rubric, […]
