Topic: 2025 – Reducing Recruitment Capabilities of Terrorist Groups
Country: Kazakhstan
Delegate Name: Remy Jorgensen
Country: Kazakhstan
Delegate: Remy Jorgensen
School: Williamston High School
Committee: DISEC
Topic: Reducing the Recruitment capabilities of terrorist groups
A problem that has plagued the world for many years is terrorist groups and the recruitment capabilities surrounding them. One very notable terrorist group is ISIS, well known for extreme violence, beheadings, and large-scale massacres. Also, ISIS is known for worldwide propaganda that influences citizens in countries with higher standards of conformity. Reducing the recruitment capabilities of terrorist groups is important because, if groups like ISIS gain more followers, they will have more members to control and spread their ways.
Kazakhstan has put travel restrictions so that its citizens can’t go into conflict zones to join terrorist groups, they put these restrictions in place to limit extremist influence from neighboring countries such as Afghanistan. Also they put the restrictions in place to curve the number of FTF in their country. Secondly, Kazakhstan has acknowledged and stated that they were working to educate the youth to discourage them from joining terrorist groups. Additionally, the government has banned over 10,000 websites that it has deemed extremist.
Kazakhstan has a few plans for the future of reducing the recruitment capabilities of terrorist groups, such as trying to rehabilitate citizens who had joined terrorist groups. Also, Kazakhstan has started to cooperate with international bodies like UNDP and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime in countering extremist ideology. Finally, countries like the United States and other Central Asian countries would help because of our common problems regarding terrorist groups.
Sources
www.state.gov
