Articles by Jonathan Rozen
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The UN’s Blind Spot for Conflict Prevention
Jonathan Rozen – Inter Press Service-IPS,
10 Oct 2016
3 Oct 2016 – As the world struggles to respond to conflicts and the people fleeing them, UN insiders are also struggling to advance a ‘shift in mindset’ to help prevent these crises from happening. “Part of the challenge is the way we have characterised the UN as a first responder, fire-fighter, as an organisation that comes in when things fall apart. So the UN tends to be more reactive than preventive.”
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Jonathan Rozen, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Because he was a child, Moses Otiti was the only one to survive. For the next 12 months, he was forced to serve the LRA as a soldier. “The reason why they didn’t kill me was because they were really [looking for] people who were young…they really wanted to groom them as soldiers who can fight the battle against the government,” he told IPS.
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