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Shaikh

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2017-10-31
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2017-10-31
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  1. “With children being intentionally and systematically used across the world in all forms of conflict, whether by armed groups, State forces or Violent extremists, it is ever-more critical to address the problem head on. A robust, holistic and inclusive approach that puts children's rights upfront will allow us to protect children from harm, prevent violence in communities around the world and help create a more peaceful and equitable society for all. Once again, I thank Council members for having me today. The issue of children and armed conflict is one that we can all agree must be dealt with quickly and competently. God bless the States Members of the United Nations with peace and security.”

    2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source

  2. “As I have been taught by the Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers initiative, security sector actors, such as the military, police and peacekeepers, must understand the specific reason why children are used by non-State armed groups, including Violent extremists, and how their actions can help counter that or make the problem worse if they are not careful. As with all efforts to counter Violent extremism, security sector actors must build mutual trust and respect with the affected communities, preventing the marginalization and mistrust that can help fuel recruitment. A key aspect of such an approach is ensuring that security sector actors are adequately prepared, with training, doctrine and policy to guide and inform their actions.”

    2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source

  3. “A preventive approach must be holistic, while addressing the factors that lead to recruitment, how children are used, the need to demobilize and rehabilitate them, what works and what does not, and bringing together a wide range of groups that help address violent extremism - Government and security forces, the United Nations system and civil society. Security forces, whether military, police, peacekeepers or corrections personnel, have an important role to play, and must be prepared to address the issue. The security sector has a critical role to play in that prevention-oriented approach, and must be adequately prepared and trained. Working in partnership with other governmental and non-governmental actors, with sensitivity to their roles and the need for neutrality, is key.”

    2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source

  4. “It is far better to ensure that children are never recruited and used in the first place than to address their disruptive childhood trauma and indoctrination after the fact. We need a comprehensive, coordinated and holistic response involving Governments, the United Nations and civil society, based on the strength and areas of responsibility for each. One key takeaway for the members of the Council is that youth Violence is on a continuum. Whether it is extremism of a religious or racial nature, urban street gangs, banditry or piracy, the challenge is the same - robbing the innocence of children and leaving them to die.”

    2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source

  5. “If members have not already become aware of the Vancouver Principles on Peacekeeping and the Prevention of the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers - a timely document currently being generated by the Canadian Government and with the direct input and support of the Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative - they need to. The use of children by such groups around the world is a growing threat, as they adapt to the international community's interventions and learn from what other groups are doing. We also know that that is a fundamental moral and ethical dilemma for professional security forces, who may under-react, overreact or not react at all. The results of that can be catastrophic for all involved, in particular the children. We must respond to that challenge preventively.”

    2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source

  6. “They recruit children for a number of tactical and strategic reasons - children are easier to forcibly or coercively recruit and indoctrinate; the use and indoctrination of children from a young age can help perpetuate their fight and make them more difficult to defeat; security forces often View children with less suspicion, making them useful as spies, couriers and suicide bombers; the reluctance of security forces to face children in battle; and the diminishing of community support for Government if the security forces target children owing to their use by adults.”

    2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source

  7. “It shows a three-year-old whose parents make their boy, not two feet tall, take a knife the size of his arm, which he then uses to behead his teddy bear. What will come of this boy when he turns 10 or 15? Will he even live to 20? This is the real life story of where we are today and what we will deal with tomorrow. Let us not wait until the child suicide bomber has hit at home for us to take action. Around the world, non-State armed groups, including Violent extremists, are using children to sow violence, carry out attacks, build their ranks and prolong their beliefs and agenda into the future. The recruitment and use of children are carried out in a systematic and intentional manner. This is no accident; these groups realize that they can gain an advantage by using children that does not come with adults.”

    2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source

  8. “I then began work as an undercover operative with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Integrated National Security Enforcement Team, where I would spend too much time seeing how children, teens and adults were exploited by extremists. I have been intimately involved on the counter- Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) file, where I saw on social media - in real time - children and teenagers being employed by extremist groups, such as the Taliban, Al-Qaida and its affiliates - Al-Shabaab, Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and so forth - and, of course, ISIS and its affiliates, such as Boko Haram. In my training of police and intelligence services, I use a video that haunts me every time I play it.”

    2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source

  9. “Mr. Shaikh: I express my sincerest gratitude to the French Mission for having invited me. It is a great honour to be with the members of the Security Council to share some of my thoughts on the use of children in armed conflict. I went through a period of six years ofradicalization into extremism when I was a teenager, after a period of travel to Taliban-controlled areas owing to an identity conflict, a poisonous ideology received from other teens, and a search for meaning and belonging. It was only after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 that I turned away from that way of thinking. I ended up studying Islam properly and went through a period of de radicalization.”

    2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source