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- Title
CHILD SOLDIERS IN AFRICA: THE ROLE OF DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATIONS.
- Authors
Yina, Martin N.
- Abstract
Modem warfare has a devastating effect on the well-being of children, especially those described as child soldiers. These children are taken out of their safe environment, their rights are violated, and they are subjected by warlords to all forms of suffering that do not befit any stage of their life. Their experiences distort their personal development and disrupt family and community life. This essay explores the impact of war on children in a globalized world with particular focus on Sierra Leone and Uganda, two countries in Africa with prolonged wars. Efforts by various organizations and agencies to rehabilitate and reintegrate these children are commendable, but more preventive measures entailing political economic, and cultural changes are needed that provide young people with productive opportunities. Contemporary means of communication sensitive to indigenous cultures are also needed to complement folk media and empower people to demobilize and reintegrate child soldiers as well as prevent child soldiering.
- Subjects
SIERRA Leone; UGANDA; CHILDREN &; war; CHILD soldiers; MILITARY science; CHILD development; SOCIAL change; COMMUNITY life; POLITICAL change; WAR; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2008, Vol 20, Issue 1/2, p120
- ISSN
0890-0132
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.5840/jis2008201/27