Journal article
Rearing Cubs of the Caliphate: An Examination of Child Soldier Recruitment by Da’esh
Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol.32(7), pp.1573-1591
2020
Abstract
This study investigates child soldier recruitment strategies of the Islamic State group (Da'esh). It argues that while the dominant caretaker and free-ranger approaches to child soldier recruitment make useful contributions to understanding Da'esh's strategy, a self-perception-based approach to examining children's agency and association with Da'esh sheds new light on how the organization was able to systematically militarize and recruit children within occupied territory. Da'esh used social and/or political pressures to inform children's self-perception of agency, while also aligning these self-perceptions with the group's interests. Further examination of these pressures, children's reactions to them, and how they inform children's self-perceptions of agency is essential in understanding how and why children are recruited by Da'esh and how children justified violence within this context.
Details
- Title
- Rearing Cubs of the Caliphate: An Examination of Child Soldier Recruitment by Da’esh
- Authors
- James Morris (Author) - University of QueenslandTristan Dunning (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
- Publication details
- Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol.32(7), pp.1573-1591
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2020
- DOI
- 10.1080/09546553.2018.1495628
- ISSN
- 0954-6553
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450639102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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