Lord's Resistance Army

Imagine you are in the military. Fighting for your country's freedom when you see a small child no more than ten years old firing an AK-47 at your fellow troops. The child’s shooting is chillingly accurate. The thoughts of what has this child gone through? and why are they even in this position of military enforcement? Race through your brain. The child is then captured. Three months later you are in a massive court room face to face with the same child you saw fighting with a gun almost the…

Captivating the hearts of those who watched, the Kony 2012 documentary was a viral phenomenon. Within 6 days the documentary reached 100 million views. Unfortunately, the director of the film and the leader of the movement Jason Russell was marked as a heretic by several media outlets. Thoroughly, the movement was geared to free children being enslaved as child soldiers. In actuality, Jason Russell’s efforts helped bring awareness to a person that was forcing children to do horrid acts of human…

4.2 EXAMINING THE LONG TERM RECOVERY APPROACHES OF NGOS IN POST CONFLICT AREA OF NORTHERN UGANDA A number of approaches have been suggested for post conflict recovery and they include but not limited to the following; Bottom up approach This is also known as indigenous empowerment. The idea behind it is to empower local populations who are at the bottom and mid-levels of society by allowing them to consolidate and develop necessary resources for the implementation of a peace process, which…

YELLOW= BEFORE ORANGE= AFTER PINK=CITED QUOTE All around the world there are desperate children being abducted and brainwashed into child soldiers. Children as young as 5 are taken, given a gun and told to kill others or die. If these kids do get rescued by peacekeepers they go into rehabilitation. Child soldiers deserve amnesty because they were just desperate children who were abducted and brainwashed into killing. Around the world innocent children 5-18 are being terribly captured.…

A Collective Alienation Rumors have a profound effect on human interaction, and can cause stressful isolation of certain groups. The powerful effects of rumors in post-trauma societies is revealed in the articles, Narratives of Uncertainty: The Affective Force of Child-Trafficking Rumors in Postdisaster Aceh, Indonesia by Annemarie Samuels and Gendered War and Rumors of Saddam Hussein in Uganda by Sverker Finnström. Although mere stories or potentially false statements, rumors reveal the…

The Senufo people are located in Cote d Ivoire, Ghana. The Senufo people are considered a people heavily involved with the “spiritual realm”. Religion is quite different when it comes to the people of Senufo, they do not associate themselves as one of the three prominent religions of the world; Islam, Christianity, or Judaism. There is a belief that a women spirit; called the “ancient mother” is heavily involved with the poro society 2. The poro society (a male dominated community) was also a…

Should Child Soldiers Be Granted Amnesty? Desolate, barren wastelands. The blistering heat of the blazing sun directly above. Scorching sand sinking between your toes. You are forced to be armed and alert at all times, and if you don’t fight, your family is as good as dead. These are no conditions for anyone to live in, right? Since 2001, child soldiers have been recruited in 21 armed conflicts worldwide, especially in African countries. Many people believe that child soldiers should be tried as…

Child Soldier Imagine that you are a young boy or girl and instead of going straight home like your parents instructed you, you stayed out to play a game with some friends. During your activities you notice some strange armed men approaching. Not sure what to do you wait to see what they say. They quickly run up and grab you and your friends. Scared and clueless, they have blindfolded you and your friends, you sit in the back of the van they have put you in. They take you somewhere and the ride…

a child soldier. These soldiers were forced to kill, maim, slaughter, riot, kill civilians and even their own families. Children are being forced to be soldiers and if they don’t, they are killed. When the soldiers find a way to escape the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) they find there way back home but even that is hard because the leaders of the LRA would kill them. If they make it back to where they were before they were taken, the villagers find it hard to accept them back into society. So,…

appropriate care that would be needed to be taken best to fulfill the needs of these young individuals. Around the world today, there are different types of organizations going on to help prevent Child Soldiers from happening anymore. The Cultures of Resistance Network is proud to highlight the work of Child Soldiers International, also known as “Coalition” this organization is to help stop the Use of Child Soldiers, an organization that helps with medical and other lifesaving opportunities in…