WOMEN DEFICIT AND VIOLENT CONFLICTS: PERSPECTIVES ON DEMOCRACY IN ASIA

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1. Introduction
2. The Nexus among the Evolution of State Concept, Violent Conflicts and Demography: A Theoretical Outlook
3. Demography and Population Age Structure: Impacts on the Stability of the Political System
4. Effects of Female Deficit on Democracy and the Security Trajectory of Nations
5. Conclusion

WOMEN DEFICIT AND VIOLENT CONFLICTS: PERSPECTIVES ON DEMOCRACY IN ASIA

Author: Narottam Gaan

DOI Link: https://www.doi.org/10.56888/BIISSj2010v31n3a5

ABSTRACT

Literature on civil war, insurgency and terrorism has highlighted the role of other causal factors such as the scarcity of valuable natural resources, the degree of ethnic fractionalization, societal segmentation and the type of political regime while showing short shrift to the importance of population age structure. Saying this does not in any way denude these factors of their significant role in the onset of civil war but the importance of youthful age structure in insurgency based civil wars and terrorism should not be undermined. Numerous studies explicatedhow female deficits in Asia could drive the youths into the vortex of violence and terrorist activities. Taking Indiaand China as case studies, this paper argues that a significant number of young adult males will not be able to tie the nuptial bond due to deficit of women in the society. These left out unmarried adult males would be the stirring causes of conflicts, insurgency, civil war and acts of terrorism intensely affecting the perspectives of democracy in these countries.

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