When Terrorist Disengagement Processes Are Consistent with Previous Violent Radicalization: Two Case Studies
Although terrorist disengagement is a dynamic process, this study proposes the likelihood of a continuity in the prevailing factors influencing exit from terrorism and the prevailing dimensions which initially influenced violent radicalization. Through the analysis of two contrasting cases featuring...
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| description | Although terrorist disengagement is a dynamic process, this study proposes the likelihood of a continuity in the prevailing factors influencing exit from terrorism and the prevailing dimensions which initially influenced violent radicalization. Through the analysis of two contrasting cases featuring third-generation Muslims formerly involved in jihadist activities in Spain, we assess a connection between the prevailing push and pull factors which sparked individuals to cease their terrorist engagement and the predominant dimensions that earlier prompted the radicalization which led them to terrorist involvement. Drawing from in-depth interviews with the two former jihadists, Hassan and Omar, conducted while they were serving prison sentences for terrorism offences, we suggest that the significance of ideology and network in, respectively, their journeys from Islamic fundamentalism towards jihadism is similarly reflected in their accounts of ending jihadist involvement, even in the presence of secondary factors that also play a role in such a complex process. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a1a8fb683c5548f6a143cb40f305bf7b2024-01-31T11:36:50ZdeuDaniel KoehlerJournal for Deradicalization2363-98492023-12-01Winter 2023/2437105139When Terrorist Disengagement Processes Are Consistent with Previous Violent Radicalization: Two Case StudiesFernando Reinares0Álvaro Vicente1Real Instituto Elcano, MadridUniversidad Rey Juan CarlosAlthough terrorist disengagement is a dynamic process, this study proposes the likelihood of a continuity in the prevailing factors influencing exit from terrorism and the prevailing dimensions which initially influenced violent radicalization. Through the analysis of two contrasting cases featuring third-generation Muslims formerly involved in jihadist activities in Spain, we assess a connection between the prevailing push and pull factors which sparked individuals to cease their terrorist engagement and the predominant dimensions that earlier prompted the radicalization which led them to terrorist involvement. Drawing from in-depth interviews with the two former jihadists, Hassan and Omar, conducted while they were serving prison sentences for terrorism offences, we suggest that the significance of ideology and network in, respectively, their journeys from Islamic fundamentalism towards jihadism is similarly reflected in their accounts of ending jihadist involvement, even in the presence of secondary factors that also play a role in such a complex process.https://journals.sfu.ca/jd/index.php/jd/article/view/815radicalizationterrorismdisengagementjihadiststhird-generationspainceutamelilla |
| spellingShingle | Fernando Reinares Álvaro Vicente When Terrorist Disengagement Processes Are Consistent with Previous Violent Radicalization: Two Case Studies Journal for Deradicalization radicalization terrorism disengagement jihadists third-generation spain ceuta melilla |
| title | When Terrorist Disengagement Processes Are Consistent with Previous Violent Radicalization: Two Case Studies |
| title_full | When Terrorist Disengagement Processes Are Consistent with Previous Violent Radicalization: Two Case Studies |
| title_fullStr | When Terrorist Disengagement Processes Are Consistent with Previous Violent Radicalization: Two Case Studies |
| title_full_unstemmed | When Terrorist Disengagement Processes Are Consistent with Previous Violent Radicalization: Two Case Studies |
| title_short | When Terrorist Disengagement Processes Are Consistent with Previous Violent Radicalization: Two Case Studies |
| title_sort | when terrorist disengagement processes are consistent with previous violent radicalization two case studies |
| topic | radicalization terrorism disengagement jihadists third-generation spain ceuta melilla |
| url | https://journals.sfu.ca/jd/index.php/jd/article/view/815 |
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