The Economist recently reported:
"Gaza and Kenya have more in common than short names ending in “a” and violent squabbles apparently not ending at all. Both have too many people, or, to be more exact, too many young men without either jobs or prospects. The resulting frustration is one of the causes of their present discontents."
Its easy to blame civic unrest on youth and, in fact, this has been done throughout history. The development of the majority of age (legal codification of 18 as adulthood) occurred during the time of the Industrial Revolution as adults became preoccupied with controlling the active resistance and organization of an economically independent group of young working people.
Moreover, Jo Boyden writes: "at the present time most theories of causality in young people's conduct appear to rest on only one form of influence on human development and action, whether an aspect of the environment, personal experience, or individual traits. Most of the existing theories have failed to do justice to the full complexity of human motivation and the forces that mediate this."
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