"Childhood Studies Film Project" concluded today along with the filming of "Innocent Voices"

With the film "Innocent Voices" about child soldiers, Nathalia cleverly led us to think about risk factors for becoming child soldiers. Poverty and militarization taking over state control were mentioned among other factors. If war dehumanize people, what would prevent a child to become child soldier? International laws are not enough as the discussion went to think about the effect of war to children's lives, even after the war ends. Indeed these words from War Child International are worthy of our reflection: It's not only about how we take children out of war but how can we take the war out of the child.

This is the last section of the Film Project. We may plan to have more event to let people know about children issue in different context and perspective later.