Human Rights Watch: Somalia’s Child Soldiers
The children of the world are our children. Each child deserves happiness and the innocence of childhood. When adults use children to further their own needs they destroy the future through the next generation. Children need love, security and peaceful families in order for them to create a stable society and peaceful… Continue reading
Mia Farrow Meets Ex-Child Soldiers in DRC
I am watching a documentary on the child soldiers in the Congo. I thought of my friend on the Rotary Peace Studies Program who was Congolese and how she tried to bravely start peace education in her country, to facilitate a dialogue. She said it was working until she was arrested and then… Continue reading
A World Fit For Children Begs For Your Compassion
There was a little girl with a baby on her hip that was most definitely my teacher in India. It was a moment when I had just visited a Gandhian university and a teacher was organising a bike so I could get to the train. The traffic was full on and it had… Continue reading
World Peace Game & The Collective Wisdom of Children
The children will show us the way.
John Hunter is a former teacher who inspires the Ted audience with the brilliance of children. The kids created a World Peace Game designed by them to solve problems. You can learn more about World Peace and other 4th grade achievements http://worldpeacegame.org/. … Continue reading
Abuse of Children is Not Love
This blog is about abuse, not only a phenomena in Australia but endemic around the world. This is the next generation, if they are not functional, how can we expect them to have the strength to face the future. Clearly there are significant problems in generations of parents, how they parent and how they cope… Continue reading