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Sat Oct 11

• Child Soldiers: Despair, Barbarization, and Conflict: Contemporary warfare is no longer the sole domain of adults and state forces. Children are increasingly involved in conflicts waged by nonstate actors: guerillas, terrorists, jihadi bands, gangs, criminals, and warlords. These groups utilizing child soldiers operate outside the norms of war and the rule of law, and have abandoned long-held prohibitions against terrorism, attacks on noncombatants, torture, reprisal, and slavery. These actors fight among themselves and against states for turf, profit, and plunder while accelerating the barbarization of warfare. This article examines the use of children in war and armed conflict. Specifically, it reviews the contemporary child-soldier issue and discusses child combatants in three settings: internal conflicts (civil wars and insurgencies), terrorism, and criminal gangs. Finally, it describes how children become child soldiers and looks at ways of responding to the problem.
• Child Soldiers Around the World - Council on Foreign Relations: Yes. Trusting, vulnerable, and often intimidated, children can easily be manipulated, experts say. In combat, children can be daring and tenacious, particularly when under the influence of drugs?a common practice?or when compelled by political or religious zeal. Child units can greatly add to confusion on battlefields, slowing opposing forces' progress. Children have also been used as scouts, messengers, minesweepers, bomb-makers, and suicide bombers. Child units are also effectively used as advance troops in ambush attacks.
• USATODAY.com - Tragic challenge of child soldiers: P.W. Singer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote in USA Today about child soldiers around the world ("Tragic challenge of child soldiers," ; March 31). Calling the phenomenon "the world's largest, but least understood, case of child abuse," he acknowledged that Palestinian terrorist groups are involved in this abuse
• The Childhood Origins of Terrorism: The Emotional Life of Nations by Lloyd deMause Chapter 3--The Childhood Origins of Terrorism Because so much of the world outside the West has for historical reasons fallen behind in the evolution of their childrearing modes, the resulting vast differences between national personality types has recently turned into a global battle of terrorism against liberal Western values. In order to understand this new battle, it would be useful to know what makes a terrorist?what developmental life histories they share that can help us see why they want to kill "American infidels" and themselves?so we can apply our efforts to removing the sources of their violence and preventing terrorism in the future.
• Welcome to ChildTrauma Academy: The ChildTrauma Academy, a not-for-profit organization based in Houston, Texas is a unique collaborative of individuals and organizations working to improve the lives of high-risk children through direct service, research and education.
• Trauma, memory and cybernetic structure of the mind: (Taken from the report held at the Congress of Capo d?Orlando ?Memory and Oblivion?) The progress in informatics is a fascinating phenomenon, which deserves to be studied from different angles rather than the usual points of view. Firstly, an affirmation that can seem banal: with informatics the human being has become the ?creator? of standardized minds. At the cybernetic origins, the functions that a computer could perform were somewhat simple. Nowadays, computers have highly sophisticated functions in a vast applicative field: we can say that from the primitive mind, the minds of the elaborators have passed to an advanced psychic state in which they are able to execute, in an extremely fast way, repetitive tasks and apply several variables predefined by the ?creator?.
• Robert D. Stolorow: Trauma and Change in America

Fri Oct 10

• Indian flood survivors receive trauma help
• ReliefWeb " Document " India: Bihar flood 2008 - Weekly report 15 - 19 Sep 2008
• Child Abuse and Neglect: Types, Signs, Symptoms, Help and Prevention

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