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Jul 11, 2018 · Sarah Ladbury, “Women and Extremism: The Association of Women and Girls with Jihadi Groups and Implications for Programming,” Independent paper prepared for the Department of International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, January 23, 2015, https://assets.publishing.service.gov.
- C. Christine Fair, Ali Hamza
- 2018
[11] Sarah Ladbury and Cooperation for Peace and Unity (CPAU), Testing Hypothesis on Radicalisation in Afghanistan (Kabul: Department for International Development, 2009).
- Summary
- About This Brief
- Introduction
- How Are Narratives Targeted at Young Men and Boys?
- What About Parents and Family Influence?
- Countering with Alternative Narratives
- Notes
Afghanistan’s population is among the world’s youngest and fastest growing: half its population is under eighteen and more than three-quarters under forty.The need is dire for strategies and policies to respond to the largest and fastest-growing segment of the population and to enable these citizens to meaningfully engage in their country’s affairs.Many young men are frustrated with real and perceived injustice, regular and observable impunity and corruption, and lack of basic infrastructure and community support facilities.All those who want to learn more about radical and violent extremist ideologies do not necessarily become violent extremists.This Peace Brief is derived from analysis of Taliban propoganda and from meetings with Afghan youth groups, civil society organizations, and government officials. It is part of efforts by the United States Insti-tute of Peace (USIP) to implement CVE-related projects in Afghanistan. Belquis Ahmadi has more than twenty years of experience in Afghanis...
In Afghanistan, youth participation in violence has grown dramatically over the last several decades as political and religious groups have taken advantage of vulnerable youth to advance political and religious ideologies. This has been a cause of increasing concern, but no national strategy or discrete public policy has been crafted in response. N...
In Afghanistan, the typical explanation for violent extremism is that it arises in response to large-scale poverty and endemic high unemployment.4 A 2015 study by Mercy Corps, however, suggests that “the principal drivers of political violence are rooted not in poverty, but in experiences of injustices.”5 Young people tend to be adventurous and to ...
The Taliban appeal to family because they know that family members can play a decisive role in dissuading youth from being radicalized. In an eastern Afghan village, when a farmer and his wife learned that their son had been approached by a recruiter, they decided that the only viable solution was to move to a city, Kunar, and thus prevent their so...
To counter Taliban and other extremist narratives, it is critical to take a proactive approach to understand, and thus be better able to undermine, the appeal of their messages. Locally developed and tailored initiatives can both prevent and counter recruitment and radicalization. Schools and madrassas can become the breeding grounds for peace and ...
Monica Das Gupta and Richard Kollodge, The Power of 1.8 Billion: Adolescents, Youth and the Transformation of the Future, UNFPA State of World Population 2014 report, www.unfpa.org/sites/default/fi...Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, “Afghanistan Living Conditions Survey 2014” (Kabul: Central Statistics Organization, 2014), http://cso.gov.af/en/page/1500/1494/nrav-report.Lindsay M. Howden and Julie A. Meyer, “Age and Sex Composition: 2010,” U.S. Census Brief, May 2011, www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-03.pdf.Sarah Ladbury et al., “Testing Hypotheses on Radicalisation in Afghanistan” (Kabul: Coopera-tion for Peace and Unity, 2009).Jun 19, 2013 · Sarah Ladbury (in cooperation with Cooperation for Peace and Unity (CPAU)), Testing Hypotheses on Radicalisation in Afghanistan: Why do Men join the Taliban and Hizb-I Islami?
- J. van der Lijn
- 2013
Jul 12, 2011 · Sarah Ladbury and Cooperation for Peace and Unity (Afghanistan) (CPAU), Testing Hypotheses on Radicalisation in Afghanistan: Why Do Men Join the Taliban and Hizb-i Islami?, Kabul: Department for International Development, 2009, p.
Jan 1, 2015 · Ladbury, S. Contents. Abstract. Citation. Links. Abstract. Women are typically portrayed as either the victims of ideologically based violence or as positive agents of moderation. The purpose of...
Mar 17, 2011 · Sarah Ladbury, ‘Testing hypotheses on radicalisation in Afghanistan’, independent Report for the Department of International Development (London: DfID, 14 Aug. 2009), p. 18; Stephen Carter and Kate Clark, ‘No shortcut to stability: justice, politics, and insurgency in Afghanistan’ (London: Chatham House, Dec. 2010), pp. 2–11.
