Why Young Men
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Why Young Men

The Dangerous Allure of Violent Movements and What We Can Do About It

  1. 279 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Why Young Men

The Dangerous Allure of Violent Movements and What We Can Do About It

About this book

Across the world, we see an explosion of unpredictable violence committed by alienated young men.

Jamil Jivani recounts his experiences working as a youth activist throughout North America and the Middle East, drawing striking parallels between ISIS recruits, gangbangers, and Neo-Nazis in the West.
Having narrowly escaped a descent into crime and gang violence in his native Toronto, Jivani has devoted his life to helping other at-risk youths avoid this fate in cities across North America. After the Paris terrorist attacks of 2016, he traveled to Europe and the Middle East to assist Muslim community outreach groups focused on deterring ISIS recruitment.
Why Young Men is the story of Jivani's education as an activist on the front lines of one of today's most dangerous and intractable problems: the explosion of violence among angry young men throughout the world. Jivani relates his personal story and describes his entrance into the community outreach movement, his work with disenfranchised people of color in North America and at-risk youth in the Middle East and Africa, and his experiences with the white working class. The reader learns along with him as he profiles a diverse array of young men and interviews those who are trying to help them, drawing parallels between these groups, refuting the popular belief that they are radically different from each other, and offering concrete steps toward countering this global trend.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Dedication
  5. Foreword by J. D. Vance
  6. Introduction: Paris Attacks
  7. 1. Role Models
  8. 2. New Arrivals
  9. 3. Crisis of Distrust
  10. 4. Capacity to Aspire
  11. 5. Competing for the Future: Part I
  12. 6. Competing for the Future: Part II
  13. 7. Social (Im)mobility
  14. 8. Reentry
  15. 9. Diversity: Part I
  16. 10. Diversity: Part II
  17. 11. To Brussels
  18. 12. Faithless Radicals
  19. 13. Fake News
  20. 14. Youth Workers Fight Back
  21. 15. Jobs
  22. 16. Isolating Extremists
  23. 17. Broken Democracy
  24. 18. My Brother’s Keeper
  25. Epilogue: What Went Unsaid
  26. Acknowledgments
  27. Notes
  28. Index
  29. About the Author
  30. Newsletter Sign-up
  31. Contents
  32. Copyright