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Lt.Gen. (Ret'd) Romeo A. Dallaire

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26 October, 2018

Lt.Gen. (Ret'd) Romeo A. Dallaire,
former UNAMIR Mission
Commander and Founder President
of the “Child Soldiers Initiative”
visited CoESPU for the first time,
accompanied by Dr. Shelly
Whitman, Executive Director.

After an office call with the CoESPU Director and
C.J. Hamilton (US Consulate in Milan), he gave a
Lectio Magistralis to the attendees of the 13th and
14th FPU Courses, about the deplorable use of
children as soldiers in bloody conflicts around the
world.

The Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative (the
Dallaire Initiative) is a global partnership based at
Dalhousie University. Its mission is to progressively
eradicate the use and recruitment of child soldiers
through a security sector approach, to persue the goal of a world where children are no longer used
as weapons of war.
In the picture, Gen Dallaire signs the CoESPU Libre d’honneur, and a copy of hos bestseller book “Waiting for First
Light”, stored in the CoESPU Library.

Col. Sebastian Cucoş

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3 December 2018

Col. Sebastian Cucos, Deputy Gen. Inspector
of the Romanian Gendarmerie, visited
CoESPU on the occasion of the Centenary of
Romania’s Great Union (December 1, 1918 –
December 1, 2018).
Col. Cucos gave a speech during the CoESPU
december Flag Hoising Parade, and paid a visit
to the Romanian Contingent currently
deployed at “European Gendarmerie Force”
and “Nato Stability Policing Center of
Excellence”, both based in the CoESPU
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