Japanese and Koreans invaded Asia. We apologize.

過激に走る動機ー貧困・失業より、無視・蔑視・差別・虐待・不公正に対する怒り 

2015年02月18日 19時58分37秒 | Weblog
‘I Didn’t Join the Taliban Because I Was Poor, I Joined Because I Was Angry’: Report Finds Injustice, Not Unemployment, Radicalizes Youth

By Alice Speri
February 18, 2015 | 8:15 am


これは、かなり興味深い記事ですね。必読

As the narrative has it, the millions of poor, unemployed youths living in camps and peripheries worldwide are a fertile recruiting ground for militant ideologues seeking manpower. But that narrative may need debunking — with new research suggesting that anger, more than hunger, is to blame.

But a report released today by global aid agency Mercy Corps suggests that governments and analysts still understand little about what exactly drives the world's youth to join armed insurgencies and terrorist groups. It also indicates that more than poverty and unemployment, it's the experience of injustice that triggers the decision for many, coupled with exposure to corruption, humiliation, and violence.

"For a long time there has been an 'economics of terrorism' narrative that suggested that young people join terrorist groups because they don't have meaningful employment, they lack opportunities, and therefore they're a ready pools of recruits for al Qaeda," Keith Proctor, the report's author, told VICE News. "Essentially the narrative suggested that terrorism is really just job seeking by another name. We didn't think that was right."



"What we found is that unemployment status is a very poor predictor of whether a person is going to join an insurgent group or not," he added. "A far better predictor is the experience of injustice, discrimination, marginalization, being on the receiving end of corruption, and experiences of physical violence and being abused by police, security forces, or having a family member killed. All of this, of course, is not to say that no one has ever joined a terrorist organization or armed militia because they needed food, but it's just generally not the case."


"If poverty and unemployment were driving terrorism, there would be a lot more terrorism," Proctor said. "There are millions of people living in poverty — why aren't more of them joining armed movements? The fact is that most young people are peaceful. They want a future, and they're often optimistic in spite of their circumstances."


Dignity Not Dollars



"It's not jobs, it's injustice," Proctor said. "Future efforts to try and address this problem really need to start with a pretty hard look at what we're funding, why we're funding it, and what we need to change."


In Afghanistan, for instance, billions in aid has often contributed to corruption, abuse, and government illegitimacy that has only further fuelled the anger and alienation felt by many of the country's young, the report found.

While these circumstances are often connected, it's corruption, nepotism, and discrimination that often triggers the violence, not mere poverty and joblessness, the report said.



"I did not join the Taliban because I was poor," said a former militant who joined the group when he was 18, following a NATO strike on his school. "I joined because I was angry. Because they wronged us."



Circumstance Not Ideology
Ideology also has a lot less to do with radicalization than with the mere coincidence of one's exposure to violence, the researchers said.

Where youth chose to join one armed group over another, "often geography and personal history were more important," Proctor noted.

"In Colombia, for example, we found that the reason why they joined one armed group over another was not necessarily because of ideology, but because that armed group happened to be in their neighborhood," he said.


Thousands of young men and women have flocked from Europe and North America to join the ranks of the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Syria and Iraq in recent months. Many are second-generation immigrants, often lacking their parents' connections to their countries of origin, yet marginalized in their own. Poverty was rarely found to be a determining factor, and some have actually reportedly come from relatively privileged backgrounds — like the British Islamic State fighter known as "Jihadi John," who became an executioner for the caliphate, but who grew up in an affluent London suburb.

"It's hard not to see parallels even in Western, developed countries, particularly among groups of people who are marginalized in some way, or feel disconnected and alienated from the society around them," Proctor said. "We need to find meaningful opportunities for young people to participate in their communities, to feel a part of the society in which they live, and also to address their grievances, which in many cases are very legitimate."



 過激派に走る若者たちの調査をしたろころ、その動機は貧困ではない、と。貧困や失業が原因なら、もっと多くの人がテロに走っているだろうが、そうなってはいない、と。貧乏人が過激に走らないということではないが、むしろ、不正を受けたり、差別されたり、無視されたり、腐敗した政治、あるいは、警察、軍隊に、自分や家族が暴力を受けたりした経験から、過激派に参加していくのである、と。

 アフガンの青年は、貧困から、タリバンに入ったわけではない、NATOに学校を空襲されその不正に怒ったから参加したんだ、と。

 そして、参加する理由も、その団体の思想に共鳴したというよりも、ときたま、自分の近くにその過激グループがいたからである、と。

 経済的支援をする場合でも、地域に金をばらまくだけでは、権力者が独り占めして、腐敗がおき、その腐敗に怒って過激に走る人たちが増殖してしまうこともある、と。

 西洋の若者たちの場合なども、比較的恵まれた家の子供が参戦している場合があるほどで、貧困が決定要因というより、やはり、社会で、無視されたり、周囲との絆がなかったり、疎外されている、といったことが理由なのだから、彼らの不平不満を聞いてやって、彼らがここが自分たちの居場所だ、と言えるような社会を築きあげていく必要がある、と。

ーーーーサブタイトルにもありますが、ドルではなくディグニティー 金ではなく、尊厳ーーーここらへんも左翼の人たちはかんがえていったほうがいい。

 宗教的過激派や民族主義者は、無視・蔑視・差別・虐待・不公正に対する怒りを吸収するとともに、この社会でバカにされ、踏みにじられた尊厳を回復して、居場所と連帯感を提供してくれるのではないか。

 人はパンのみに生きるあらず!

 いずれ、おまいらは地獄に堕ち、神に選ばれし、おれ(ら)は天国にいく、あるいは、USA!USA!No1、あるいは、世界が賞賛するニッポン、民度の高い、ぼくはニッポン人、といった、自尊心のようなものを軽視してしては左翼離れは加速しよう。

 また、日本でもアメリカでも、左翼は自己批判的なのはいいが、アメリカの左翼は、反イスラムと言われるのを恐れて、イスラムの過激派を批判するのに消極的なように、日本の左翼は、贖罪意識からか、韓国の超民族主義批判に消極的であるのもいけない。 







 



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