Large repressed impoverished youth populations fuel civil war and terrorism recruitment

Evidence

The age structure, intense competition for limited resources, and widespread social discontent makes young men ripe for recruitment for civil wars and terrorist activities. Large youth populations living under repressive, poverty-ridden conditions will continue to be a growing threat to international security. … Worsening this problem, water sources are shrinking as the demand by soaring human numbers outstrips the supply. The depletion of aquifers and of river flows from shrinking glaciers will spawn growing regional conflicts over the allocation of water from sources crossing national borders (Brown, 2007). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2570

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2570