Caught in Conflict: The Journeys of Child Soldiers

Caught in Conflict: The Journeys of Child Soldiers
Ishmael Beah
Former Child Soldier, Sierra Leone
Author, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Jocelyn Kelly
Director, Women in War Program
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Co-author, “We Came Back With Empty Hands”
Leila Zerrougui
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and
Armed Conflict, United Nations
Jimmie Briggs (moderator)
Author, Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War

Co-founder and Executive Director, Man Up Campaign

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and the Eastern Congo Initiative

This panel discussion will tackle the problem of child soldiers around the world today. Panelists, like former child soldier Ishmael Beah and the UN's Leila Zerrougui, will reflect on their personal and professional experiences with this issue. This event serves as the launch of a new report from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative's Women in War program on the reintegration of former child soldiers in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

This panel discussion will tackle the problem of child soldiers around the world today. Panelists, like former child soldier Ishmael Beah and the UN's Leila Zerrougui, will reflect on their personal and professional experiences with this issue. This event serves as the launch of a new report from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative's Women in War program on the reintegration of former child soldiers in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. - See more at: http://www.iop.harvard.edu/content/caught-conflict-journeys-child-soldie...
This panel discussion will tackle the problem of child soldiers around the world today. Panelists, like former child soldier Ishmael Beah and the UN's Leila Zerrougui, will reflect on their personal and professional experiences with this issue. This event serves as the launch of a new report from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative's Women in War program on the reintegration of former child soldiers in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. - See more at: http://www.iop.harvard.edu/content/caught-conflict-journeys-child-soldie...