American Smart Power for Africa's Kids.

摘要

U.S. National Security Strategy identifies respect for universal values at home and around the world as an enduring national interest. In pursuit of its national interests, Armitage and Nye suggest that the United States must become a smarter power by investing once again in the global good. The issue of children affected by armed conflict, including children compelled to bear arms, to act as spies, suicide bombers, or human shields, or to become sexual slaves by armed groups, is both a threat to international peace and security, and a human rights concern which never ceases to shock and horrify. The U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking has funded two successful anti- child labor projects in Uganda: the Opportunities for Reducing Adolescent and Child Labor through Education (ORACLE) and the Livelihoods, Education, and Protection to End Child Labor (LEAP). This paper explains how these programs, if applied in Sudan, can contribute to enhancing the United States' reputation as an agent of global good, thereby expanding American influence and establishing the legitimacy of American action on the African continent and beyond.