Peer-reviewed article
Maintaining a Safety Net and Peace for Former Child Soldiers in Africa
Florence Nyemba, Rufaro Chitiyo ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-sonnet-5This chapter looks at peace education programs used across Africa to help former child soldiers recover and rebuild peaceful lives. It reviews existing literature on how humanitarian agencies, with World Bank support, run these programs as a safety net for at-risk children. The authors identify both challenges and opportunities in delivering these programs. They recommend shifting toward community-based participatory approaches to make peace education more sustainable. The chapter is aimed at helping stakeholders create safer environments for children in conflict-affected African regions.
Key points
- Peace education programs aim to end violence by teaching peaceful conflict resolution and providing socioeconomic stability for children.
- Humanitarian agencies use these programs, often with World Bank support, to create safety nets for former child soldiers.
- The chapter identifies both challenges and opportunities in implementing peace education programs in Africa.
- The authors propose adopting community-based participatory practice to improve program sustainability.
- The work is intended to benefit at-risk children in war-torn African regions and program stakeholders.
Limitations
The document is a literature review without country-specific data, statistics, or details on program outcomes, so it cannot show how effective these programs actually are in practice.
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the challenges and opportunities associated with the implementation of peace education programs in Africa. Peace education programs are used widely to create peaceful environments for at-risk children. Their intended goals are to end violence through modeling human consciousness to resolve conflicts peacefully and to provide children with a stable socioeconomic future. Using a systematic review of literature, the authors examine how humanitarian agencies with support from the World Bank utilize peace education programs to create safety nets for former child soldiers in Africa. The challenges and opportunities of such programs are examined. The authors then propose for the adoption of a community-based participatory practice to facilitate the sustainability of peace education programs. The chapter will benefit at-risk children in war-torn African regions and all stakeholders involved in the creation of safe environments for children.
Findings the Hub has extracted
Each claim below is labelled by its type of design and links back to this report.
- Intervention
- Peace education programs run by humanitarian agencies, supported by the World Bank, intended to model peaceful conflict resolution and provide a socioeconomic safety net.
- Population
- Former child soldiers and at-risk children in conflict-affected African regions
Key finding
Peace education programs are widely used to create peaceful environments for at-risk children.
Nyemba et al. · Crossref · 1 Jan 2019