Fwd: THURS: Human Rights Week talk by former child soldier

Stephen J. Sills, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
320 Graham Building
PO Box 26170
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC  27402-6170
http://www.uncg.edu/~sjsills/
sjsills@uncg.edu

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From: Human Rights Research Network <humanrightsresearch@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Subject: THURS: Human Rights Week talk by former child soldier
To: humanrightsresearch@gmail.com

Ishmael Beah, who was conscripted as child soldier in his war-torn home country of Sierra Leone, will offer the keynote address "Children at War." The lecture takes place Thursday, Oct. 30, at 7 p.m. in Aycock Auditorium.

 

Beah's 2007 memoir "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solder," recounts the years he spent as a teenage soldier followed by his long journey toward self-forgiveness and healing. Beah came to the United States in 1998 and graduated from Oberlin College with a BA in political science. He currently serves as a member of the Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Division Advisory Committee and has spoken before the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities and many other NGO panels on children affected by war.

 

The lectures are part of Human Rights Week at UNCG Oct. 27-31. 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

 

Human Rights Week is sponsored by UNCG Department of History, the UNCG History Club, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the UNCG Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, and the Human Rights Research Network (HRRN): http://www.uncg.edu/cci/HRRN/