Peace
is salvation from the savagery we cause each other.
That statement is the ultimate research ideology in which I am
focused. Within that statement, I am asking what drives each of us to
choose non-peaceful paths? To narrow the scope further, I am looking
at situations where youth are going through reintegration/ transition
programs. The focus of this work is on reintegration programs of
child soldiers and young offenders in Canada. I am picking these two
because I truly believe that each experience the savagery of the
world intensely.
As
I look into the lives of those who have and are going through
reintegration programs, I want to learn how we can improve our
success rates and more importantly, lower the numbers of those who
will need such programs. We must take into consideration the forced
realities many youth endure due to the negligence/cruelty of others.
Understanding that peace is a choice most people make, those who
choose to act in unpeaceful ways will impact the youth. Those youth,
I believe will rely 100 percent on mental health for any success
towards peace as a choice. Below is an example of the mental health
need:
“The
recent use of children by terrorist has made the issue of child
soldiering more alarming. Here many groups such as, IS, Al-Qaeda,
Jabhat al-Nusra (JN), Free Syrian Army (FSA), Ashbal Saddam,
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Al-Shabaab, Boko Haram4 and so forth
recruit children and adolescents. After recruiting them, these
children are institutionalised in training camps were they undergo
harsh combat, weapon training and indoctrinated socially and
politically to perform the bids of these terrorist. These children
apart from being taught how to make bombs are forced to watch videos
of suicide bombings, after which they are sent to the front lines,
where they function essentially as human shields, fighters, or as
suicide bombers.”1
Taking
that quote in mind, I am mixing it into this reality, “Reintegration,
which is essential for sustainable return, is defined as the
‘universal enjoyment of full political, civil, economic, social and
cultural rights”.2
I
am now asking, “what are the experiences of the youth as they weave
their way through the realities of non-peace?” For some, what they
knew as the civil, social and culture components of life will be
altered severely as they endure further alterations of what is right
and wrong during their reintegration phases.
Title:
Peace is salvation from the savagery we cause each other.
Description:
A parent brings a child to look at waterfall with a lookout. The
lookout is in the middle of the water fall. Beyond that there is a
wild sunset. The parent ask the child “What do you see?”
The
reply given by the child, “I see a child crying for peace as the
world dances upon the head. The parent grips the child tightly and
reaffirms both their goals by saying: “We will continue do
everything we can to save them.”
1Omodanisi
Kemi Beatrice, Nigerian
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of Lagos Campus,
Akoka, Yaba, Lagos State.
Journal of Law, Policy and Globalization www.iiste.org
ISSN
2224-3240 (Paper) ISSN 2224-3259 (Online) Vol.93, 2020
2
Haider, Huma. Initiatives and Obstacles to Reintegration in
Divided Communities: UNHCR’s Imagine Coexistence Project in Bosnia
and Herzegovina. Governance and Social Development Resource Centre,
International Development Department, University of Birmingham,
2012. Pg.,6
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