In your presentation, you mentioned several times that the United Nations needs to get stronger. In your opinion, what does the United Nations need to do in order to get stronger?
Your group mentioned that to solve starvation, you would have to find child soldiers another job for them to pay for food. What jobs would be available for these children?
In your presentation you mentioned about creating shelters, and get food for the starving citizens, but not only do you need to get the money to do this how wwill you get the personal?
I noticed that you said "many poor countries do not have enough money to have an educational system." Are you eliminating public schools in this statement, and mainly speaking about private schools? If you mean any type of school, is this proven? What are some examples of these particular countries?
Also, in your presentation you mentioned welfare for children. What age would that go through? Do you think that some kids would take advantage of this?
In response to Lucy's question, child soldiers are usually born into war zones. They become fighters and are taught how to use a gun and survive. Some child soldiers also work as cooks or run errands for the fighters. This is also dangerous because they are always around warzones. Many child soldiers do die. If they do not die they have been exposed to the worst danger and suffering and face mental issues later in life because of the trauma they are exposed to.
You mentioned many times that one of the keys of stopping child soldiers from being created would be stopping the rebel groups who create them. Who will disarm the rebel groups? Who is powerful enough to disarm all rebel groups who require and create child soldiers around the world?
You said that you would have to create Education for All in order to stop war from affecting education. However, isn't war one of the issues creating a lack EFA? So if war causes a lack of EFA, and you need to create EFA in order to stop war from affecting education... I don't understand how that works out.
In your presentation you said that to solve illiteracy, you would have to disarm rebel groups; how would disarming rebel groups solve the problem of illiteracy?
In your presentation you mentioned you had to strengthen the U.N. the question "how will it get stronger" was already asked but will it cost money for them to get stronger? and where will this money come from?
It is not going to cost money to better the united nations. It is not a matter of money, because we need to get more soilders. And the way that you get more soilders is just like the U.S army, volenteers. And since you cant make people join the army it is hard for the united nations to grow if none volenteres.
responding to mattp's question I think you met and how do you get the people so i am going to respond to it like that.
The way we are going to get the money is the same way that we have funded every other part of this project. From private doners, goverments and others. The way that we are going to get the poeple is volenters. people that want to better the life for children. A way that we can target these people is advertising.
In you presentation, you mention how children have to enroll in the army. You never really explained what roll they play while in the army. So what roll do the children play?
In response to Katharine's first question, we are referring to both public and private schools. Yes it is proven because many countries are run by dictators and the dictators keep the country's money for themselves and don't use it for schooling. Some specific examples of these countries are Sudan, Zimbabwe, Libya, and many other African counties. Also, North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Il. He keeps an estimated 250,000 people held in prison camps. He is the second worst dictator in the world and Sudan's dictator, Omar al-Bashir, is number one.
Responding to matthewl; To clarify, we said that EFA will help the masses understand who they are and what they are entitiled to form their government. Democracy tends to focus more on education than Dictatorships do. When people understand that they are being oppressed, they will rise up against the oppressors in time. Education speeds this process up because knowledge is power. So, if you go all the way through this logic, you fill find EFA helps EFA. Big surprise. But let me take you through my logic behind this. I picture education as a wheel, which is rotating at a certain speed and is a certain state of repair (weak, strong). Each part of the wheel represents a different main issue for a country. How fast the wheel rotates reflects the countries' education. Also there is a blacksmith, but he can only make limited repairs on the wheel, only enough to keep it the wheel's state of repair where it is. Say the blacksmith gets an assistant for a year, and they heal the part of the wheel of prejudices. Now that part of the wheel is stronger, it helps support the other parts. Now the blacksmith has to work less on the wheel to keep it in the same state of repair. So with the extra time he repairs another section, government. This also helps everything out. Now the wheel rotates faster. Even when a part of the wheel is hurt, the wheel's greater inertia helps keep it spinning, or its higher level of education helps it through the recession or depression. The wheel helps and hurts itself. Here's another more literal example. The poor need more money. To get more money, they need an education. To get an education, they need more money. This is an example of a vicious circle or wheel. In my reasoning, everything affects everything else. So a stronger education leads to a stronger economy which leads to a stronger education again.
We would shelter children by creating safe schools and safe corridors so that they would not be afraid to travel to school. The funding for this would most likely come from our main source of funding. Our main plan for funding was to recieve grants from organizations such as the Gates foundation or the Mott foundation. These organizations give grants of money to people who are going to use it towards something for education. We would present our case to them and ask for money to fund our project.
The answer to your question is similiar to the answer Greta provided for Lucy's question. Child soldiers can have different roles in the army. Not only can they be fighters but they might also be cooks or run errands for soldiers. Although being a cook might sound like it is not as bad it still has bad effects on the children because of the atrocities they still witness. The psychological trauma that they endur can have lasting effects throughout their lives such as mental illnesses.
Obviously we can't force a country to accept aid from the U.N. All we can do is argue our point and hope for the best. If a country refuses to accept aid than we will simply have to keep trying to persuade them or to assist them in other ways that do not involve aid from the U.N.
In response to Max's question, disarming the rebel groups would help solve the problem of illiteracy because if the rebel groups are disarmed the government could become stronger and hopefully start using its money to set up schools. The rebel groups are killing many families, so if they were disarmed more children could get an oppurtunity for an education. Since many children's parents are dead they don't get the oppurtunity for an education because they have to work to support themselves. If their parents were alive the parents could support the family and the kids could go to school.
Yolanda; You ask a very hard question. (Just so you know, I know very little about the U.N.) There are two problems for the U.N. Number one, the U.N. has very little real power because it relies on other nations to support its peace keeping forces. Number two, the U.N. is little more than a place for countries to argue with each other. Addressing problem number 1, the U.N. needs its own army independent from other nations, which is loyal solely to the U.N. It needs power so that nations can’t push it around, so the army must be one of the most powerful in the world. It needs it have the final word in arguments. Addressing problem number two, I have no problem with the fact that countries can go to the U.N. to peaces fully argue with each other. I think it’s a great idea. But I don’t think that it should be the only way the U.N. is run. I think there should be another section, an-biased portion, which looks at problems to better the world, not just a country. This section would need to have the final word in the U.N. Obviously, you could get much more in-depth with this, but this is the general idea.
Responding to Ava's question; When the rebel groups are disbanded by the U.N., the child soldiers will be out of the army. The problem with getting them back in schools is there are probably none for them to go to. We don't have a specific plan for this, but once the war part of the problem with education is over, other groups' ideas could be used. JJLuM might come in, or classes on racism from you and Theron, Max and Josh, etc.
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In your presentation, you mentioned several times that the United Nations needs to get stronger. In your opinion, what does the United Nations need to do in order to get stronger?
In your presentation, you explained that you will shelter children. How will you raise the money to build shelters, and keep them going?
I was clear about the fact that you will shelter and educate children, but how?
Your group mentioned that to solve starvation, you would have to find child soldiers another job for them to pay for food. What jobs would be available for these children?
What role do the child soldiers have when in the army? Do many die fighting?
In your presentation you mentioned about creating shelters, and get food for the starving citizens, but not only do you need to get the money to do this how wwill you get the personal?
I noticed that you said "many poor countries do not have enough money to have an educational system."
Are you eliminating public schools in this statement, and mainly speaking about private schools? If you mean any type of school, is this proven? What are some examples of these particular countries?
Also, in your presentation you mentioned welfare for children. What age would that go through? Do you think that some kids would take advantage of this?
In response to Lucy's question, child soldiers are usually born into war zones. They become fighters and are taught how to use a gun and survive. Some child soldiers also work as cooks or run errands for the fighters. This is also dangerous because they are always around warzones. Many child soldiers do die. If they do not die they have been exposed to the worst danger and suffering and face mental issues later in life because of the trauma they are exposed to.
You mentioned many times that one of the keys of stopping child soldiers from being created would be stopping the rebel groups who create them. Who will disarm the rebel groups? Who is powerful enough to disarm all rebel groups who require and create child soldiers around the world?
You said that you would have to create Education for All in order to stop war from affecting education. However, isn't war one of the issues creating a lack EFA? So if war causes a lack of EFA, and you need to create EFA in order to stop war from affecting education... I don't understand how that works out.
If a child is already a child soldier, how would they get out of the army and get access to an education?
In your presentation you said that to solve illiteracy, you would have to disarm rebel groups; how would disarming rebel groups solve the problem of illiteracy?
How do you plan on getting all the countries to accept aid from the U.N., because some certainly won't accept it right away.
In your presentation you mentioned you had to strengthen the U.N. the question "how will it get stronger" was already asked but will it cost money for them to get stronger? and where will this money come from?
responding to sonny's question
It is not going to cost money to better the united nations. It is not a matter of money, because we need to get more soilders. And the way that you get more soilders is just like the U.S army, volenteers. And since you cant make people join the army it is hard for the united nations to grow if none volenteres.
responding to mattp's question I think you met and how do you get the people so i am going to respond to it like that.
The way we are going to get the money is the same way that we have funded every other part of this project. From private doners, goverments and others. The way that we are going to get the poeple is volenters. people that want to better the life for children. A way that we can target these people is advertising.
In you presentation, you mention how children have to enroll in the army. You never really explained what roll they play while in the army. So what roll do the children play?
In response to Katharine's first question, we are referring to both public and private schools. Yes it is proven because many countries are run by dictators and the dictators keep the country's money for themselves and don't use it for schooling. Some specific examples of these countries are Sudan, Zimbabwe, Libya, and many other African counties. Also, North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Il. He keeps an estimated 250,000 people held in prison camps. He is the second worst dictator in the world and Sudan's dictator, Omar al-Bashir, is number one.
Responding to matthewl;
To clarify, we said that EFA will help the masses understand who they are and what they are entitiled to form their government. Democracy tends to focus more on education than Dictatorships do. When people understand that they are being oppressed, they will rise up against the oppressors in time. Education speeds this process up because knowledge is power. So, if you go all the way through this logic, you fill find EFA helps EFA. Big surprise. But let me take you through my logic behind this.
I picture education as a wheel, which is rotating at a certain speed and is a certain state of repair (weak, strong). Each part of the wheel represents a different main issue for a country. How fast the wheel rotates reflects the countries' education. Also there is a blacksmith, but he can only make limited repairs on the wheel, only enough to keep it the wheel's state of repair where it is. Say the blacksmith gets an assistant for a year, and they heal the part of the wheel of prejudices. Now that part of the wheel is stronger, it helps support the other parts. Now the blacksmith has to work less on the wheel to keep it in the same state of repair. So with the extra time he repairs another section, government. This also helps everything out. Now the wheel rotates faster. Even when a part of the wheel is hurt, the wheel's greater inertia helps keep it spinning, or its higher level of education helps it through the recession or depression. The wheel helps and hurts itself.
Here's another more literal example. The poor need more money. To get more money, they need an education. To get an education, they need more money. This is an example of a vicious circle or wheel. In my reasoning, everything affects everything else. So a stronger education leads to a stronger economy which leads to a stronger education again.
responding to Kit's first and second questions
We would shelter children by creating safe schools and safe corridors so that they would not be afraid to travel to school. The funding for this would most likely come from our main source of funding. Our main plan for funding was to recieve grants from organizations such as the Gates foundation or the Mott foundation. These organizations give grants of money to people who are going to use it towards something for education. We would present our case to them and ask for money to fund our project.
responding to Jessie's question
The answer to your question is similiar to the answer Greta provided for Lucy's question. Child soldiers can have different roles in the army. Not only can they be fighters but they might also be cooks or run errands for soldiers. Although being a cook might sound like it is not as bad it still has bad effects on the children because of the atrocities they still witness. The psychological trauma that they endur can have lasting effects throughout their lives such as mental illnesses.
responding to Theron's question
Obviously we can't force a country to accept aid from the U.N. All we can do is argue our point and hope for the best. If a country refuses to accept aid than we will simply have to keep trying to persuade them or to assist them in other ways that do not involve aid from the U.N.
In response to Max's question, disarming the rebel groups would help solve the problem of illiteracy because if the rebel groups are disarmed the government could become stronger and hopefully start using its money to set up schools. The rebel groups are killing many families, so if they were disarmed more children could get an oppurtunity for an education. Since many children's parents are dead they don't get the oppurtunity for an education because they have to work to support themselves. If their parents were alive the parents could support the family and the kids could go to school.
Yolanda;
You ask a very hard question. (Just so you know, I know very little about the U.N.) There are two problems for the U.N. Number one, the U.N. has very little real power because it relies on other nations to support its peace keeping forces. Number two, the U.N. is little more than a place for countries to argue with each other.
Addressing problem number 1, the U.N. needs its own army independent from other nations, which is loyal solely to the U.N. It needs power so that nations can’t push it around, so the army must be one of the most powerful in the world. It needs it have the final word in arguments.
Addressing problem number two, I have no problem with the fact that countries can go to the U.N. to peaces fully argue with each other. I think it’s a great idea. But I don’t think that it should be the only way the U.N. is run. I think there should be another section, an-biased portion, which looks at problems to better the world, not just a country. This section would need to have the final word in the U.N.
Obviously, you could get much more in-depth with this, but this is the general idea.
Responding to Ava's question;
When the rebel groups are disbanded by the U.N., the child soldiers will be out of the army. The problem with getting them back in schools is there are probably none for them to go to. We don't have a specific plan for this, but once the war part of the problem with education is over, other groups' ideas could be used. JJLuM might come in, or classes on racism from you and Theron, Max and Josh, etc.
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