Q: What do the Islamic State, the IRA, the governments of South Sudan, Myanmar, Afghanistan and Nigeria have in common?
A: They all use child soldiers.
 What is a child soldier? Why does the definition matter? What happens when child soldiers grow up? At what point do child soldiers shift from victim to perpetrator? What is being done to prevent the recruitment and use of child soldiers?
Penelope Nelson is an Intelligence Research Specialist with the Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Unit’s Human Rights Target Tracking Team, which targets and identifies human rights violators and seeks to prevent their entry to the United States. Co-sponseed by the Ford Institute and the Global Studies Center, come to hear Penelope speak on this important issue. Light dinner will be served.