as Archbishop Romero did before his assassination in 1980, and as did the six Jesuit priests who were killed in 1989. It was the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas that trained the military officers who led the re- pression. How does all this history relate to the experience the students and I had as participants in the IPM Immersion in May 2010? Every day of our trip we struggled to figure out how all this fit together. It started to come together a bit on the second-to-last day, when we visited the Lidia Coggiola School—a project supported by IPM in the El Zaite area of Zaragoza, a community of great poverty and gang domination. After introducing ourselves to the children, the students and I sat
down with them to undertake a craft project. When I had finished with my group, I sat on the floor with my back against a low cinder block wall to watch the children and the students. While I sat there, a little girl came up to me and sat down in my lap, and snuggled up against me. It was a blissful moment. I sang her a lullaby, and we sat together until the activity was over and the kids were herded off to their classrooms by the teachers. I struggled to weave together the disparate strands of my experi- ence as they related to El Salvador. How did the life of Alfredo Prieto
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Garbarino was the founding director of Loyola’s Center for the Human Rights of Children from 2006–2009. He has been selected by the American Orthopsychiatric Association as the 2011 recipient of the Max Hayman Award for distinguished contributions to the study and elimination of geno- cide and other forms of political violence. In particular, he is being honored for his decades-long work to illuminate the experience of children in dangerous environments around the world. He also recently received the C. Henry Kempe Lectureship Award from the International Society for the Prevention and Treat- ment of Child Abuse. His most recent book is Children and the Dark Side of Human Experience: Confronting Global Realities and Rethinking Child Development.
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