WRITTEN BY by Ahmad Alhendawi
For far too long, there was tendency to portray young women and men either as angry trouble-makers, or as photogenic, helpless victims. This is a false narrative.
Yes, it is true that many young people face tremendous amounts of violence in their daily lives. In fact, the statistics are horrifying: Approximately 430 young people aged 10 to 24 die every day through interpersonal violence. Globally, more than 600 million young people live in fragile and conflict-affected settings; and more than half of the world’s population of refugees are young people. But the truth is that while a disproportionate number of young people face unspeakable hardships, only a small percentage turns to violence. Still, this minority remains at the centre of global attention.
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WRITTEN BY Mariaeugenia Benato
During these last years, some countries around the world have been attacked by terrorists’ violence and the number of citizens who choose to become foreign fighters has increased. Experts in terrorism and radicalization have been carrying out hypothesis concerning which kind of external factors could lead a common person to become a foreign fighter.
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WRITTEN BY Ginevra Ossola
People with different backgrounds, with different experiences and heritages, bring different perspectives to the judgement of a case, impacting differently the decision-making process. How is this diversity dealt with? Human beings differ from one another by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and many more. Amongst others, stereotypical ideas of race and gender have been distilled into everyday rhetoric, in a way that shapes people’s identities on societal expectations rather than on lived experiences. Although very little is true and natural about these stereotypical constructions of boys and girls, the appropriation of these notions has led to a real damage and distortion in people’s identities.
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WRITTEN BY Katherine Rankin
Although the term LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) may be new, the idea behind is anything but new. Same-sex relations can be traced back to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, however homosexual relations were not accepted until much more recently. In fact, the term homosexual was not used in the U.S. until James G. Kiernan referenced it in a Chicago medical journal in 1892, when equating it to a sexual perversion. In the 1920s LGB characters starting appearing on Broadway and, as a response, The New York Legislature banned the presentation of ‘sex perversion’ on stages. World War II helped to foster the creation of LGBT identity and communities, however the first declaration of the acronym seems unclear.
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WRITTEN BY Renate Winter
Child Soldiers. They are cheap, available in vast numbers and expendable. They are easily abducted, or easy to force to join armed groups, and easy to control. They pose no threat to a military hierarchy as their obedience is easy to establish and to maintain through manipulation and control using fear and intimidation.
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