Survivors of the killing: child soldiers as refugees in Germany

Dima Zito, Wuppertal (Germany)

“There are things I did, that are unspeakable. People I killed come to me in the night. What gives me the power to go on living is the idea of finding a way to make up for it somehow. And maybe of finding my mother again one day.”
Statement of a former child soldier, from a therapy memo by the author

This article presents the issue of former child soldiers as refugees in Germany and the question of support for these traumatized children. (more…)

Equal Conditions in Adolescence

Sabine Andresen, Bielefeld (Germany

The poet Elisebeth Barrett Browning published a poem in 1844 called “The Cry of the Children” in which she discussed the question of socially disadvantaged children and justice in Manchester capitalism. (more…)

Social Economy and the Transformation of Society – Latest Developments in Germany and Europe

Susanne Elsen, Munich (Germany)

This article focusses on social economic self-help of poor people and disadvantaged communities, especially the foundation of cooperatives and other approaches of social economy that represent a central contribution for a sustainable social development (more…)