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Examining the changing functions of the official religious leaders in the chaplaincy as well as the place and purpose of religion in the lives of regular military personnel,Religion in the Ranksexplores this question in the context of late modernity and the Canadian secular state.

Senator Roméo Dallaire commanded the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda in 1994. He spoke to Ben Jones about helping combatants after conflict, child soldiers and why writing his books meant \"going back to hell\".

A speech by Lt Gen Romeo Dallaire, founder of the Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, is presented. Dallaire come from a country that is, at times, talking from both sides of its mouth, which makes it rather difficult to be credible in the international sphere in these days, because, on the one hand, Canada was leading in moving the Optional Protocol on Child Rights, as an example, in regards to child soldiers and the recognition thereof, but on the other hand refused to repatriate a child soldier from Guantanamo Bay, who was Canadian, and who was, in fact, ultimately dumped in Canada after he was tried in Guantanamo and is now in a Canadian jail. This child soldier dimension, this introduction of youths in piracy as some are doing in other endeavors, is, in his opinion, a dimension of conflict that is of this era came available because of massive availability or proliferation of small arms that also helped at the end of the Cold War.

The international response to the use of children as soldiers has leaned heavily on strategies of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration. However, this strategy fails to stem the recruitment and use of children in the first instance -- the international community has opted to fix the broken rather than to protect the whole. Solving the problem of global recruitment and use of child soldiers requires a comprehensive solution. At the core of the Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative's approach is a suite of scenario-based, prevention-oriented training programs that prioritizes the protection of children through a security sector approach. These trainings are designed to better prepare security sector actors, who are often the first point of contact for child soldiers. The innovative preventative approach of the Dallaire Initiative aims to fill knowledge gaps and bridge the divide between international policy and legislation with the realities faced by the security sector. This approach seeks to change attitudes and behaviors that in turn lead to holistic systemic change that eventually makes the recruitment and use of children as soldiers unthinkable.

We are living in an era in which the level of human suffering as a result of intra-State conflict seems to be escalating exponentially. The essential challenge remains how to create the political impetus for timely, non-selective responses to human suffering (MacFarlane and Weiss, 2000). At the very heart of the human suffering we are witnessing the plight of vulnerable populations, and most notably children. Of all the threats that define contemporary conflict, the use of child soldiers presents one of the farthest-reaching and most disturbing trends today. If in the past children were made to fight in spite of their youth, they are now being made to fight because of their youth.

The news media – both domestic and international – played a crucial role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. From my vantage point as commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), I was able to watch the strange dichotomy of local media, on one side, fuelling the killing while international media, on the other side, virtually ignored or misunderstood what was happening. The local media, particularly the extremist radio station Radio-Télévision Libre des Milles Collines (RTLM), were literally part of the genocide. The genocidaires used the media like a weapon. The haunting image of killers with a machete in one

The news media – both domestic and international – played a crucial role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. From my vantage point as commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), I was able to watch the strange dichotomy of local media, on one side, fuelling the killing while international media, on the other side, virtually ignored or misunderstood what was happening. The local media, particularly the extremist radio station Radio-Télévision Libre des Milles Collines (RTLM), were literally part of the genocide. Thegenocidairesused the media like a weapon. The haunting image of killers with a machete in one