Stolen Childhood: The Socialization of Children into Militant Groups

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2022-05-09

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Pardun, Lydia

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Throughout history, militant groups implement systems to recruit, socialize, and deploy children as soldiers. This thesis analyzes children’s socialization processes into the Hitler Youth and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Using government and non-government organization (NGO) reports and historical accounts, it identifies the socialization process of each group then compares the two cases to establish identifiable patterns that lead children to become soldiers. The findings show larger socialization structure of the two groups are similar despite ideological and historic differences.

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Sociology, Political Science, War

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