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"A major new study of ten countries finds that governments are encouraging the growth of organized armed groups - or gangs - by imprisoning and even executing their members, instead of helping young people to rise above the poverty and social disintegration that is pushing them to join gangs in the first place. Parallels and Differences Seen Between Child Soldiers and Armed Urban Youth. Concludes that youths involved in gangs, organized crime, or revolutionary movements respond better to efforts to reintegrate them into society than law-enforcement crackdowns or zero-tolerance policies. "
Neither War nor Peace - PDF - http://www.coav.org.br/publique/media/NeitherWarnorPeace.pdf
