The Role of Unsupervised Youth Groups in Violence

Author(s):  
James F. Short
Keyword(s):  
1975 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kleiner ◽  
Holger Stub ◽  
James Lanahan

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 295
Author(s):  
Busaini Busaini ◽  
Baiq Handayani Rinuastuti ◽  
Feriyadin Feriyadin ◽  
Andrian Wijanarko ◽  
Khairul Amri Assidiq ◽  
...  

The process of building the image of Halal tourism is inseparable from the participation of youth in providing Halal hospitality services to tourists based on Islamic values that are believed by the wider community as their local characteristics (authenticity). This study aims to reveal the role of youth in building the image of Halal tourism in terms of the perspective of producers (suppliers) or people who present local service products according to Islamic values that are believed to be. This study uses a qualitative descriptive phenomenology approach. Data obtained through observation and in-depth interviews with 5 tourism activists including 2 adult groups such as; Pokdarwis Chairperson, Pokdarwis treasurer, and 3 youth groups involved in the Sekartije pokdarwis management. The results show that young people who are members of Pokdarwis Sekartije Desa Setanggor as destination managers have started to have awareness to maintain and realize the image development of Halal tourist destinations by making it easier for tourists to get Halal tourism products and service facilities in Setanggor Village, which are supported by Halal habits (Halal practice) that have become the needs of the villagers.


Author(s):  
David A. Hamburg ◽  
Beatrix A. Hamburg

We turn now to egregious examples of ways that education can be used to instill hatred, with the help of authoritarian states and fanatical leaders (either theological or secular) who shape children’s lives. There have been vivid examples of this throughout the twentieth century. The twenty-first century starts with the dramatic case of some Islamic fundamentalist schools that follow in this tradition of molding the lives of children for careers of hatred and violence.We describe these examples to provide a sharp contrast to the remainder of this book. Our fundamental aspiration is to inspire educators and leaders to embrace the important alternative role of education in fostering prosocial, empathic, and cooperative behavior—with insight into the destructive forces of human experience—that can provide the basis for a peaceful world in the long run. To be effective, we must address the obstacles to education in constructing such programs. Children can be brought up to hate, to condone killing, and even to participate in killing. That experiment has been done repeatedly. In the rest of this book, let us look briefly at examples of this destructive educational experience and then at the other side of the coin—learning to live together peacefully. The human capacity to shape child and adolescent development toward a pervasive culture of hatred and violence was vividly demonstrated by the Nazi experience. The his- torian Klaus Fischer writes on youth and education, and women and the family, in his book Nazi Germany—A New History. We begin with the origin of youth groups as a countercultural protest and move to the creation of the Hitler Youth movement and ways in which it exploited these relatively innocent youthful protests. Nazi education, its philosophy, and the creation of elite schools are described in terms of their attempt to shape the minds and bodies of boys toward devotion to the Führer and toward their future as Nazi leaders. Teachers, as well, were indoctrinated and obligated to behave in a prescribed manner toward the same end. The family, particularly the woman’s role in it, was seen as the social underpinning of society. The Nazi glorification of motherhood and the family was a means of creating more children to serve Hitler and the Nazi regime.


2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taras Kuzio

Youth have played an important role in mobilizing support for democratic revolutions during elections that have facilitated regime change. In Serbia (2000), Georgia (2003) and Ukraine (2004) youth led the way in organizing democratic coalitions among hitherto warring opposition parties that the authorities had successfully divided and ruled over. In the three countries used as case studies, youth dominated civil society and election monitoring NGOs. The article outlines a five fold framework and discusses the issues that help understand the role of youth in democratic revolutions as well as those essential conditions that lead to success. Regime change only proved successful during certain time period, in our case electoral revolutions when the authorities were at their weakest. Organization of youth groups led to the creation of Otpor (Serbia), Kmara (Georgia) and Pora (Ukraine) and provided the youth movements with structure and purpose. The training of these organized youth NGOs became a third important condition for success and often was undertaken with Western technical and financial assistance. The choice of strategies to be employed during elections was an important fourth feature. In the three country case studies, discussed in this article, the response of the authorities proved to be ineffective, weak and counter-productive.


2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-73
Author(s):  
Raimondas Kazlauskas

The article discusses the genesis of the political by treating this phenomena as a distinctive interaction between political and religious factors. The aim is to carry out the reconstruction of the premises of the political of ancient Greeks, by distinguishing its particular historic development features, exclusively characteristic for the Ancient Greece context. The rites of passage of Greek social communities are analyzed in order to understand why its youth initiation structure, formed during the Greek Dark Ages, became the basic model for Western Civilisation. The role of youth groups, the phenomena of Greek heroes, the educational structure of the young soldier class (ephebeia), and the first ever political revolution, initiated by Lycurgus, are examined by reconstructing the genealogy of the political.


2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Heyd

This paper takes a cross-linguistic look at two notorious examples of contemporary slang: American English dude and German Alter. Both have received considerable attention in the media and some initial sociolinguistic inquiry. It is shown here that both items share a number of properties, some quite obvious, others subtler and possibly less stable. This includes features from all levels of linguistic analysis and covers both formal and functional aspects. The seminal similarity between dude and Alter is of a syntactic nature: while both NPs can occur within argument structure, their default is in vocative position. Based on this structural parallelism, other domains are analyzed, including semantics and bleaching effects, phonological and orthographic variation. Particular attention is given to the sociocultural and sociopragmatic potential of dude and Alter, including their role as indexicals for certain youth groups and their subsequent stereotypization. This paper tracks both the similarities and the subtle differences in the usage and function of dude and Alter. It is argued that this lexical parallelism, albeit coincidental, highlights the role of vocative forms in the discursive makeup of both English and German.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Gilliam

Based on fieldwork in Yderbyskolen ‒ a Danish school with a majority of Muslim pupils ‒ this article looks into the ideals and practices characteristic of the way the Danish ‘folkeskole’ handles religion in school, and analyses their implications for youth of Muslim background. It argues that the ideals and practices are shaped by a moderate secularism, as well as ideals of civilised relations characteristic of the Danish school and society. These ideals prompt the teachers to consider children’s religion, as well as make religion and religious differences unimportant in school. While the teachers in Yderbyskolen have apparently succeeded in this effort, the ideals seem to entail certain understandings of acceptable religiousity and an idea of religious differences – especially between Islam and Christianity ‒ as potentially conflictual. This creates taboos and avoidance practices around religion and affects the role of both Christianity and Islam in school. It is argued that the way young people handle their Muslim identity and religiousity in school is shaped by these school norms of religiousity and their interaction with norms of behaviour established in the youth groups.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-101
Author(s):  
Jinaro Paul Mburu ◽  
Dr. Muiru Ngugi

Purpose: The study was an assessment of the role of communication in effective disbursement of Youth Enterprise Development Fund.Nyeri Town Constituency Youth Enterprise Scheme(C-YES) was used as a case study with a view to drawing generalizations on the effectiveness or otherwise of disbursement of funds to the youth from the National Youth Enterprise Development Fund kitty.Methodology: A descriptive survey research design was used. A questionnaire was used to collect data.  A majority of the questions were closed ended and a few were open-ended.  A population of 260 respondents was chosen, consisting of 200 youth groups and 60 CDAs. A sample size of 50% was chosen. The sample was 130 individuals divided into 100 youth groups and 30 CDAs.  The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The tool for analysis was S.P.S.S; a Windows based statistical Package for social science. Presentation of the findings was done in tabulated and graphical formats. Results: Findings indicate that that there are different preferred channels of communication for the youth’s groups and the community development assistants.Findings also indicate that the feedback mechanisms between youth groups and CDAs are not effective and this may have a bearing on the successful disbursement of youth funds. Findings indicated that the various communication gaps existed in youth groups as well as in CDA offices. Findings indicate that access and disbursement of youth enterprise development fund has not been successful. This might have been caused by poor communication channels used to deliver information about the availability of the funds.Policy recommendation: The study recommends that future studies on this area should focus on the communication audit of the communication mechanisms that are being used by CDAs and the youth. In addition, further studies should consider the determinants of effective communication. Such as study would address the gap left out in this study of determining whether group characteristics such as size of youth group, legal status of youth group, gender and education level of youth leaders influence communication effectiveness


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Fitriani Pramita Gurning ◽  
Fauziah Nasution ◽  
Eliska Eliska

The frequent occurrence of drug abuse and premarital sex which is indicated from the frequent occurrence of raids on drug cases in Langkat District, the high number of early childhood marriages that still occur. This is compounded by the inactivity of religiously oriented adolescent activities, where previously youth groups tended to be active in empowering adolescents. School is one of the places for adolescent interaction and in one day many teenagers spend their time in school. The form of community facilitation activities with counseling activities, peer education training and mentoring through whatup media groups and also conducting counseling to parents aimed at increasing the knowledge and role of parents as agents of socialization to adolescents, peer education training aimed at increasing the role of adolescents as peer educators and assistance aimed at assisting adolescent peer educators in planning for, and dealing with problems related to the dangers of drugs, HIV/AIDS and reproductive health. An increase in students' knowledge after getting counseling and training about the dangers of drugs, HIV/AIDS and adolescent reproductive health. Suggestions for further activities are the need for traning of trainers for adolescent doctors and assistance in making adolescent health programs.


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