YOUTH & CONSEQUENCES Unemployment, Injustice and Violence

Unemployment Injustice Violence

Around the world, in dozens of countries, young people fight under the banners of warlords, terrorists and would-be prophets. Beguiled by false promises, or forced at gunpoint to join, youth have destabilized nations and toppled regimes. In Colombia, decades of violence have been sustained by children bearing small arms. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, Islamist extremists recruit impressionable minds in mosque and madrassa. In East Africa, the Arabic name of the Horn’s most feared terrorist movement – al-Shabab – translates, simply, as “the youth.”