What responsibility does the world bear for rehabilitating child soldiers from the horror of serving in armed conflict?

by R.L Hanlon

We've all heard tales from or about war heroes, enlisting in a war after deceiving officials about their age. They wore their uniform proud, ready to fight for their country and for the betterment of mankind. We're talki...read more

by Marcus Brooks

Sierra Leone, Congo/Zaire, Liberia and Cambodia are just a small sample of nations guilty for forced conscription of child soldiers in front-line conflicts. The Third World bears responsiblity because they used young boys...read more

by CharGarski

The world bears a great responsibility for rehabilitating child soldiers from the horrors of serving in armed conflict. I restate that the WORLD bears a great responsibility and not just the United States of America as ma...read more

by Laura Mccaslin

Without doubt the world owes these children the opportunities to overcome their demons. These are children who have been denied life. Who have had their souls crushed by violence. Many of these children have been ta...read more

by Patricia Young

"Suffer the little children". In our universal society of human beings it is of the ultimate importance that all our children have the opportunity for a happy, safe, peaceful and carefree childhood. This is the basic r...read more

by Natalie I.

As we sit in the comforts of our home reading to our children or maybe helping them with homework it is unthinkable what is happening in other parts of the world. According to the Human Rights Watch website, "as of July 2...read more

by George Ivanov

Scarred, but alive. They survived, but they killed. Ruthlessly. Seeing that child in the picture, holding a Kalashnikov, and staring at you with a murderous, defying gaze. You involuntarily shake at the thought of that ...read more

by Steven Miller

The brutal regions within many modern African nations are amongst the most ruthless places to subsist on the planet Earth. Some of the people live an existence that many of us in America wouldn't be able to thrive in for l...read more

by Heidi Marie Fleetfoot

The human condition is such that most of us live in our own sheltered worlds where the occasional crisis befalls us. We sit and watch our televisions and feel informed about what is happening about us, and then carry on wi...read more

by Paula Testerman

You're a young Liberian mother holding your newborn son. He cuddles in the warmth of your arms; snuggling deeper as he settles into a peaceful dream state. You look at his five little toes and fingers, such a perfect littl...read more

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by Adam Hummel

300 000. Consider this number. Write it down, say it out loud, imagine its vastness in your head, and place it in your heart. 300 000. This is the approximate number of child soldiers that are currently used in the vari...read more

by Susan Quilty

Child Soldiers: Our Responsibility Toward Rehabilitation The numbers are staggering. It is estimated that at least 300,000 child soldiers are fighting in conflicts around the world. While a child soldier is defined as...read more

by Bryon Mondok

While my teen-aged son and daughter ate at the mall food court, played video games, or went to church youth group, kids their age on another continent were recruited or abducted to take part in war. Children even younger t...read more

by Chief K.Masimba Biriwasha

The use of children as soldiers during wartime is perhaps the most heinous of human acts that not only destroys children's lives but also puts the future of affected communities into jeopardy. It is akin to aborting th...read more

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by Gunter Chang

The children of war-torn countries actually fighting the war is certainly not a new phenomena. The mass graves discovered in Kosovo at the conclusion of that civil conflict are a testimony to the overall brutality of war, ...read more

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by Peyton Quinn

Having been to war myself I want to point this out. Most all conscripted soldiers are "children" even in the US armed forces. When I was drafted for Vietnam I was 19 years old. I know many of my comrades were even young...read more

by Sylvia Page

CHILD SOLDIERS OR GUN FODDER - HUMAN VALUES Has the value of human life become so expendable? The sad thing is that women in conflict areas are no longer safe. It has become an everyday pattern in the life of these poor ...read more

by Karen Quinn-Tostado

The world bears the total responsibility for rehabilitating children used as soldiers, but as individuals and communities, we'd rather not think about that. Yet we are responsible nonetheless. And we've dropped the ball fo...read more

by Marie Anne Zammit

What responsibility does the world bear for rehabilitating child soldiers from the horror of serving in armed conflict? Perhaps one the many historical documentaries which remained engraved in my mind is that o...read more

by Gemma Wiseman

Child soldiers play the war games of adults; child soldiers develop in an underground of fear and despair. They live the horror of adult wars. Child soldiers know too much about a fractured fantasy world; a skewed, dystopi...read more