Why does de-radicalization seem a utopia? Evaluation on “Children of the Country” program

Abstract

Children and adolescents are groups that are vulnerable to the radicalism influence. Curiosity and trial-error behaviour make them tend to do risk-taking behaviours. If it is not accompanied by good self-control ability, it will encourage them to do actions without thinking about the impact of these actions (impulsivity). If it is not accompanied by empathy, then it tends to be behaviour that opposes and disrupts the interests of others (aggressive behaviour). This study aimed to assess the “Children of the Country” program as an effort to de-radicalize children and adolescents. Quasi experimental study was used on 30 children and adolescents in a shelter of street children in Surabaya with a pretest/ post-test design. In order to measure the outcome of the program, a Radical Personality Test (RPT) was developed using big five personality construct. The increase of nationalism and positive behaviour score is not much to compensate the increase of negative radicalism score. This evaluation brings awareness to form a novel de-radicalization strategy for children and adolescents in the future.

Retracted: Structural measures to prevent radicalism among youth

“…Among Soviet scientists, the opinion was quite widespread that the existence of the spokesmen for these ideological and political doctrines and social practices was incompatible with the official ideology and principles of peaceful coexistence that developed in the Soviet Union (Ustinkin et al, 2018). Therefore, the overwhelming majority of scientific research of that period was devoted to the problems of spreading the ideas of political radicalism and the use of various extremist practices in Western Europe and the United States (Algristian et al, 2019; Lakbayev et al, 2020).…”