Counter-recruitment surged in popularity during George W. Bush’s Iraq War, when the U.S. military ratcheted up recruitment for the war.

Last week high profile counter-recruitment protests were staged at City College in New York and San Francisco State University. Today we are joined by three guests in our New York studio.

Everyone can play a role in counter-recruitment efforts: Students, teachers, counselors, parents, and organizers can contribute to the movement by protecting students’ privacy, learning how to opt out ...

But growing the pool of veterans—and starting other counter-recruitment strategies—will take money. Counter-recruitment organizing efforts are severely underfunded, Jahnkow says. At the same time, ...

Counter-recruitment efforts are not, nor will they be if they ignore the empathy required to understand what lures individuals to violence. Recruitment and radicalization to violence doesn’t happen ...

These include 1999, 2005, and 2018, when either the economy was booming (recruitment is generally higher when the economy is weaker) or when casualties in a conflict were perceived as too high.

But counter-recruiters—those opposed to military recruitment in schools—say these principles arise from recruiting efforts targeting groups like low-income students of color. “Their motive ...

That was the message of counter military recruiter Oskar Castro as he spoke April 14 at the Friends Meeting House in Ann Arbor. Castro was invited by the American Friends Service Committee's Lesbian, ...