Publications

Out of War

Author: Sara Cameron
Price: US$15.95
No. of pages: 224
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: Scholastic
Languages: (Also available in French from Castor Poche, Flammarion and in Spanish from Grupo Editorial Norma.)
English French Spanish
ISBN: 0-439-29721-4
Sales no.: e.01.XX.12

Available in the following formats:
[Order a printed copy] This link will take you to the United Nations Publications website where you can order the report. You can also purchase this publication at your bookstore or any online bookseller.

This is a dramatic first-person account by 10 of the young people in the Children’s Peace Movement in Colombia of their lives and their struggle for peace. The book documents children’s success in creating a force for change and reconciliation and focuses on a number of cross-cutting issues, including conflict and human rights. For children and young adults age 12 and up. "Young adults will find this an inspiring book about the courage of people their own age who have devoted themselves to the cause of ending violence," says Publishers Weekly.