Child Soldier Conference @Tavistock on Friday 27 May 2011
There are limited places available. To confirm your place at this
ground-breaking, important conference, please reply to the RSVP email
address, providing your own address and organisation details.
Recent media coverage of the use of child soldiers in Libya and the use
of 12 year old suicide bombers by the Taliban in their spring offensive,
brings home to us this ongoing abuse of children in times of war.
The Tavistock is hosting an innovative conference where the legal and
therapeutic perspectives of this complex phenomenon will be explored.
Legal and clinical practitioners and trainees are welcome.
The conference is inter-disciplinary and will be of particular interest
to legal and clinical practitioners, academics, policy advisers,
children’s advocates, social workers, trainees and students.
Chaired by Baroness Hale from the Supreme Court, high quality speakers
who are the best in their field will present their views, including:
* Joe Ukemenam will be interviewed about his experiences as a child
solider in Africa:
“We were given cannabis at 9 years of age and I would pass it to the
bigger boys so they would protect me. I was trained in how to set bombs
on the enemy’s munitions stores. The sub-machine gun was too heavy for
me, so I was taught how to use small arms. We were encouraged to
approach the enemy, who would treat us kindly, like children, and care
for us. Once they were away on patrol, we would set out bombs and run
away as fast as we could”
· The President of the Asylum Tribunal, Mr Justice Nicholas Blake.
· Mike Thomson, BBC Journalist, whose reports back from the
frontline experiences of child soldiers as featured on the Today
programme on Radio 4.
· Geoffrey Robertson QC will talk about his experiences as a Judge
on the United Nations special court dealing with child soldiers from
Sierra Leone.
· Dr Renos Papadopoulos and Dr David Bell will address the
difficulties of treatment and assessment of child solders and the role
of the expert witness.
Bar Council CPD points are claimable.
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