What if we look at the life of gang members through the experience of child soldiers in Africa? Is the experience of children manipulated and dragged into war in Uganda all that different from the one of teenagers recruited by gangs in our own cities? Are the fears and the fight for survival and the sense of power that comes with carrying a weapon of a child soldier in Somalia different from the ones of our teenagers patrolling the neighborhoods of our cities with a gun under their shirt? These questions spun in my mind a few days ago while witnessing the first encounter on Rutgers University's campus in Newark between Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone and author of A Long Way Gone, and DaShaun "Jiwe" Morris, author of War of the Bloods in My Veins, a compelling memoir about his life as a gang leader.
 
April 23, 2011
With the Dalai Lama in Newark
 
  During the upcoming Newark Peace Education Summit, Aldo Civico of Rutgers University will mingle his voice with those of three Noble Laureates--His Hiliness the Dalai Lama, Jody Williams and Shirin Ebadi--as well as Martin Luther King III and international "peace leaders" from a wide cross section of cultures, disciplines and perspectives. "It is an absolute honor to be part of such an important and significant event in Newark," commented Civico. "We live in a...
 
Category : Peace
 
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April 18, 2011
Perpetrators and Human Rights
 
From April 14 to 17, I participated in Puerto Rico at the annual conference sponsored by The American Ethnological Society and The Society for Urban, National and Transnational Anthropology. On Friday April 16, I served as a discussant to the panel The Category of Perpetrator in Human Rights Discourse. Presenters, among others, were Winifred Tate, Linda Green, and Samuel Martinez. There is today a small but significant number of anthropologists who have...
 
Category : Anthropology
 
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