Another stride that has been taken toward success is the creation of the “Red Hand Day Campaign”. This is a global action being taken to spread awareness to ultimately end child soldiers. Student groups founded this event and collect red handprints– a worldwide symbol against child soldiers. By 2013, they collected over 380,000 red handprints throughout the world (Gale Student Resources in Context. 2013). On February 12, 2009 (anniversary of OPAC), 4 students presented all of the collected handprints to the UN secretary general, Ki-Moon, at a ceremony in New York. Many officials then began to make their own red handprints and the general promised to work towards ending child soldiers. Furthermore, February 12 is now seen as the official Red Hand Day. Scholars are looking at the issue as a problem with peace. A lot of individuals feel that eliminating any thoughts of war and creating peace will eliminate child soldiers– and ultimately, it will. Children and Armed conflict, which is a Security council working group centered in Sweden, looks to prevent and resolve conflict in order to sustain peace. They also strive to continue monitoring child soldiers and report any activity (Stephanie Tremblay, 2017). More prominently shown, scholars see education as a vital aspect to ending child soldiers. The United Movement to End Child Soldiering (UMECS), a nonprofit organization centralized in Washington, DC (Gale Student Resources in Context, 2013), encourages secondary and higher education for children affected by war in the Middle East. UMECS also supports peace education in schools in efforts to prevent war all together. Furthermore, the Culture of resistance Network too encourages education for children in the Middle East affected by war, with a philosophy of “Education not War” (Cultures of Resistance Network, 2018). They believe that access to school prevents children from becoming involved with war. Another agreed upon scholarly perspective is that if awareness spreads, child soldiers will stop. Tim Molyneux from Child Soldiers International believes that global efforts need to intensify in order to reintegrate child soldiers. He also thinks that if the international community recognizes the importance in solving this large issue, then it will stop. The goal of Child Soldiers International is to share information with the world and to promote youth engagement in the process. A lot of scholars agree that awareness needs to spread in order for a change to occur. Moreover, reintegration is also vital for former child soldiers. A conseq>