Resources+About+Child+Soldiers

Matt Sheets - I figure it might be good to pick a color in case we have questions about the sources or want to discuss them in this space. Katy Foster - I'm in blue.

**Resources For Students**

A youtube interview with Ishmael Beah - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozsOLdgp_y0

New York Times Scholastic Magazine article about child soldiers - http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/features/index.asp?article=f042009_Armed

UN briefing on child soldiers - http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/briefing/soldiers/soldiers.pdf

Lesson plan about child soldiers - []

Ishmael Beah's website - includes audio clips, video clips - topics include the book and his writing process: []

**Resources For Teachers** Preventing, Demobilizing, Rehabilitating, and Reintegrating Child Soldiers in African Conflicts - http://irps.ucsd.edu/assets/012/6360.pdf

Information on the LRA, Uganda, and Kony. Some of the articles are dated but decent general history of the conflict and LRA - http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~trowb20a/classweb/current.html

Book by a female child solder in the LRA which might be good to let students choose either a male or female perspective - http://genpulse.bc.edu/en/content/explore/pages/human-rights/former-ugandan-child-soldier-speaks

What's happening to Uganda's girls? The effects of youth culture in Northern Uganda - http://gencen.isp.msu.edu/documents/academics/efevbera.pdf

Caught in The Crossfire UNICEF unit on children affected by conflict - http://www.unicef.org.nz/store/doc/UNICEF_SSConflictUnit.pdf

A Long Way Gone Unit Plan -