You are invited to attend a screening of the Academy Award-nominated film, Blood Diamond. Set in Sierra Leone during the 1992-2002 Civil War, the film explores the atrocities of armed conflict. A faculty panel discussion exploring the problem of child soldiers will follow the screening.
The Oberlin College Chapter of the Ishmael Beah Foundation (OCC-IBF) sponsors the education of former child soldiers to help them reintegrate into civil society and strives to increase awareness about child soldiers on campus and in the community.
Ishmael Beah (OC Class of '04) is the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Born in Sierra Leone, Ishmael was recruited to fight in the Civil War at age 13 and fought for almost three years before he was removed from the army by UNICEF and placed in a rehabilitation home in Freetown the capital of Sierra Leone. He chartered the Ishmael Beah Foundation in 2007.
The screening will be held on Thursday, November 17th at 7pm in King 106, on the Oberlin Campus. In addition to an on-site freewill offering, the Ishmael Beah Foundation gratefully accepts contributions online athttp://www.beahfound.org/Beah_
The faculty panelists will include:
Nancy Boutilier (Rhetoric and Composition)
Benjamin Schiff, Ph.D. (International Politics)
Karen Sutton, Ph.D. (Psychology)
For more information, please contact Elizabeth Kuhr at ekuhr@oberlin.edu
King 106
10 North Professor Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
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