Mensch sitzt, den Kopf auf eine Hand gestützt, in einem dunklen Treppenhaus
Gesellschaftliche Spannungen verstärken das Krisenerleben für Jugendliche. | Foto: iStock.com/Thai Liang Lim

Jugend in der Krise – Überforderung, Bewältigung und Radikalisierungspotenziale

 Jugendliche stehen in dem Ruf, besonders radikal zu sein. Medial erregt derzeit die Studie „Jugend in Deutschland“ Aufmerksamkeit, in der sich ein Rechtsruck junger Menschen ablesen lässt. Auch die Debatten um „Krawallnächte“, in denen Jugendliche sich zu Hochzeiten der COVID-19 Pandemie eskalative Auseinandersetzungen mit der Polizei lieferten oder Diskurse über Jugendliche, die ins Ausland reisen, um sich der Terrormiliz „Islamischer Staat“ anzuschließen, prägen das Bild einer „radikalen“ Adoleszenz. In diesem Beitrag zeichnen wir eine doppelte Belastung aus den allgemeinen Herausforderungen des Heranwachsens und den spezifischen gesellschaftlichen Spannungen für Jugendliche nach. Wir erläutern, inwieweit sich aus dieser Doppelbelastung Radikalisierungspotenziale ergeben.

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Protesters in Miraflores demonstrate “For a Peru without corruption” on November 14, 2020. Peru’s crisis ahead of the April 11 parliamentary elections is multifaceted. | Photo: Flickr, Samantha Hare. | CC BY 2.0
Protesters in Miraflores demonstrate “For a Peru without corruption” on November 14, 2020. Peru’s crisis ahead of the April 11 elections is multifaceted. | Photo: Flickr, Samantha Hare. | CC BY 2.0

Peru: General Elections in the Air, a Crisis of Democracy on the Ground

On 11 April 2021, the Republic of Peru will hold general elections. However, the elections have been overshadowed by the November 2020 Parliamentary Coup and the massive police violence against protesters who have been demonstrating against the controversial outcast of the former President Martín Vizcarra by the Congress. PRIF student research assistant Laura Fischer had the opportunity to speak with Carlos López Felipe Vásquez, a Human Rights activist and a professor for Public International Law at the Technical University of Peru, about the background of the political and constitutional crisis.

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The empty Piazza San Marco in Venice | Photo: Kaveman743 | CC BY-NC 2.0
The empty Piazza San Marco in Venice | Photo: Kaveman743 | CC BY-NC 2.0

COVID-19 as a Threat to Civic Spaces Around the World

As countries across the globe are desperately trying to control the COVID-19 pandemic, a rapidly increasing number of governments have started to impose severe restrictions on core civic freedoms. Although restrictions are currently necessary to save lives and protect health care from overburdening, these emergency measures must be proportional and strictly limited in time. It is crucial to monitor how restrictions are implemented to prevent governments from using the current crisis to justify new constraints on civic spaces, which have already have been shrinking in many places during the last 15 years.

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