Born of war: Protecting children of sexual violence survivors in conflict zones

摘要

American Second World War General, George Patton, is said to have remarked, 'Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance'. Hateful as it is to admit, there is more than a kernel of truth in Patton's declaration. War mobilises a population as nothing else. It elicits cooperation and civic spirit as nothing else. The great pacifist psychologist-philosopher William James recognised this a century ago in his famous essay entitled 'The Moral Equivalent to War', when he wrote: 'Militarism is the great preserver of our ideals of hardihood, and human, life with no use for hardihood would be contemptible.