Ghana Peace
The country representative of the Dallaire Institute for Children, Peace and Security – Major General (Maj Gen) William Omane Agyekum (Rtd) has paid a familiarisation visit to Headquarters, Southern Command (S/COMD).
The visit on Thursday 31 July 2025, forms part of efforts by the Dallaire Institute, to propagate training relations with S/COMD, and Units in the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), to equip personnel with knowledge on how to handle and protect children in war situations.
Gen Omane Agyekum indicated that Dallaire Institute is working closely with 107 countries – including Ghana – that have endorsed the Vancouver Principles, to commit to providing their military and police personnel, with training on how to prevent child recruitment, and how to interact with child soldiers, when they encounter them in war situations.
He indicated that resource persons and experts from the institute are available to teach topics on the subject to troops, whiles training the trainer courses are also being facilitated to identify military and police personnel, who would teach the courses locally.
The General Officer Commanding (GOC), S/COMD – Brigadier General (Brig Gen) Isaac Nicholas Paintsil, expressed optimism about the impact the training package proposed by Dallaire Institute would have on the efficiency of troops on Child Protection in conflict situations.
He thus pledged that his Command would incorporate topics from the institute into the various training programmes for all courses undertaken by Units under S/COMD.
Credit: S/COMD PR DET
