Madrasas and recruitment of child soldiers: the scenario in Afghanistan
-This study focuses on the role of religious seminaries known as madrassas in Afghanistan in recruitment and use of child soldiers, since there is significant amount of credible research indicating the correlation between madrassas and child soldiering. The study also delves into the legal posit...
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International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE)
2019
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/73964/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/73964/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/73964/1/MY%20ARTICLE%202.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/73964/7/73964_Madrasas%20and%20recruitment%20of%20child%20soldiers-%20The%20scenario%20in%20Afghanistan_Scopus.pdf |
| Summary: | -This study focuses on the role of religious
seminaries known as madrassas in Afghanistan in recruitment
and use of child soldiers, since there is significant amount of
credible research indicating the correlation between madrassas
and child soldiering. The study also delves into the legal position
of international and national legal regimes as well as Islamic
legal standards on the issue of child soldiering. The research
primarily relies on doctrinal method in sections where main
sources of the national and international legislations are studied,
and non-doctrinal, qualitative analysis of primary and secondary
sources relevant to the topic. In addition to this, textual analysis
of primary sources of Islamic law and legal rulings and
justification for legal rulings by the authoritative figures of
armed groups involved in recruitment of underage combatants
for combat in Afghanistan is utilized. The research uses
comparison between the international and national legal regimes
on the one side and Islamic legal standards on the other side to
ascertain similarities and differences. The study has found the
three legal regimes under investigation have almost identical
view pertaining to the lower age limit for the conscription of
soldiers. As a result, the study has also established that many
more underage students were recruited and used in hostilities in
the armed conflict in Afghanistan during the last twenty years of
the 20th century than it has been the case in the 21st century up
to the present.
Keywords: Madrasa; Recruitment of Child Soldier; Use of
Child Soldier; Taliban; Islamic State in Khorasan; Shariah Law;
Jihad; International law; Afghan law |
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