RT Article
T1 Rearing cubs of the caliphate: an examination of child soldier recruitment by da’esh
JF Terrorism and political violence
VO 32
IS 7
SP 1573
OP 1591
A1 Morris, James
A1 Dunning, Tristan
A2 Dunning, Tristan
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1831484471
AB 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.
NO Gesehen am 18.01.2023
NO Published online: 19 Jul 2018
K1 Child soldiers
K1 Iraq
K1 Islamic State
K1 Radicalization
K1 Syria
DO 10.1080/09546553.2018.1495628