Dalhousie University
Project Title
For a project on security sector training on the prevention of child soldiers
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
27 months
Description
The enduring use of child soldiers in conflicts remains a key concern in peacebuilding in Africa and beyond. The Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative (Dallaire Initiative—named for the Canadian general who tried, and failed, to prevent the 1994 Rwanda genocide), housed at Dalhousie University, is developing prevention-orientated security sector training programs to combat the use of child soldiers by militaries. These efforts focus on behavioral and attitudinal changes towards child soldiers through training of trainers and military embedded programs. The project will support the initiative’s rollout of the training program in Uganda, and will work with the military’s national training centers to increase the number of security sector personnel able to deliver peer training. This project contributes to the Corporation’s Peacebuilding in Africa program by engaging research and training programs with direct applicability to peacebuilding situations in Africa.
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Project Title
For a project on training security sector personnel and advocating for policy change related to child soldiers in Africa
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
12 months