The recruitment and use of children by armed forces destroys families and communities, children are exposed to incomprehensible levels of violence, they lose their families and their chance to go to school.

Jonathan Veitch

Jonathan Veitch is the president of Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. He became president in July 2009, succeeding interim president Robert Skotheim. Vietch previously served as a professor at the University of Wisconsin and dean of The New School's Eugene Lang College. He has authored American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s.

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