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Cover -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Rethinking Radicalization -- Violence, emergency, uncertainty -- Political violence? -- Religious violence? -- Radicalization, vulnerability and identity? -- This book -- Social media: affect and embodied imagination -- Radicalization pathways -- 2 Distant Suffering -- The fam and everybody -- How I'm feeling, atm -- Mujahideen swag, yes pls -- Pleasure and humour -- The encounter with suffering -- This relates to me -- The life of a stranger -- I've got myself a new CLIQUEE -- LOL -- From good and evil to innocent and guilty -- What you aren't being told -- Desire and repulsion, beauty and ugliness -- Disgust -- Cleanse this impure nation -- Purity versus impurity -- Trolling -- Filth -- The grotesque -- True Muslims, false Muslims -- Distant suffering -- Choons, eyebrows and hijabs -- I hate Shias -- Innocence? Makes me laugh -- The Khalifah: to save ourselves -- Power -- A transformation -- 3 DIY Religion: Hidden Worlds, from Fear to Bliss -- The answer to every question -- 19 HH -- Collective identity? -- If you love someone, you're going to say it -- It takes my breath away -- Shirk, power and fear -- Mediated memories -- Sisters -- Between the uncanny and bliss -- 4 Mediating Violence: Filming the Self -- Being in the world -- Ecstatic violence -- I die like Jesus Christ -- Violence reveals a truth -- Film directors will be fighting over this story -- Fan cultures -- Fan cultures and desire: #Freejahar -- Alone against the enemy -- Fan cultures and disgust: Ewwwwwww your brave to hold it! -- The fake jihad life -- Shit man! -- Fusion and unreality -- Mediation, individuation -- 5 From Drug Dealer to Jihadist -- You realize you're going nowhere -- The tourist terrorist -- Brothers -- Soldiers -- 6 The Gamification of Jihad: the Cyber Caliphate -- Gamification -- Games and religion

This book examines the 'war on terror' and radicalization from an ontological, non-state centric perspective. Since 9/11, criminology has developed in its study of terrorism, utilising alternative non-state centric frameworks to uncover and make visible state-initiated harm. Although progress has been achieved, criminology has continued to privilege the state, thereby failing to uncover forms of state crime and how such crimes facilitate radicalization and terrorism. Ahmed aims to rectify this gap by demonstrating how crimes of the state have contributed to the existence of Islamist-inspired terrorism and the emergence of global Jihadist organisations like Al-Qaeda and ISIS. The 'War on Terror' abandons the dominant socially-constructed discourse and application of the 'war on terror' and instead favours a grounded approach whereby actors, actions and consequences are analysed according to the risk they represent. Ahmed achieves this grounded approach through situating state practices in international human rights law and international humanitarian law. Through documenting the intersectionality of these practices with radicalization in the emergence of global Jihadist organisations, the book demonstrates how state crimes contribute to terrorism. Although the book sits at the intersections of critical criminology, state crime, international/transnational crime, it is relevant to all disciplines that are concerned with state crime, terrorism and radicalization.

Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Theoretical mode -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is radicalization? -- 3. Describing the elephant when you are blind -- 4. The stages of radicalization -- 5. Wanted: Radical -- 6. Psychological aspects of radical groups -- 7. The last straw -- 8. Resilience against radicalization and deradicalization -- 9. EXIT! The psychology of deradicalization and disengagement -- 10. Eight lessons for dealing with radicalization -- Index.

Radicalization, Terrorism, and Conflict is a collection of scholarly works, authored by international researchers and leading thinkers, addressing contemporary, history-making issues in international security and terrorism from an interdisciplinary perspective. Contributors to this edited volume represent global perspectives, ideas, analysis, and research. Radicalization, Terrorism, and Conflict transmits relevant findings, theory, and policy ideas for scholars of security and terrorism studi

Strengthen your understanding of the persuasive mechanisms used by terrorist groups and how they are effective in order to defeat them. Weaponized Words applies existing theories of persuasion to domains unique to this digital era, such as social media, YouTube, websites, and message boards to name but a few. Terrorists deploy a range of communication methods and harness reliable communication theories to create strategic messages that persuade peaceful individuals to join their groups and engage in violence. While explaining how they accomplish this, the book lays out a blueprint for developing counter-messages perfectly designed to conquer such violent extremism and terrorism. Using this basis in persuasion theory, a socio-scientific approach is generated to fight terrorist propaganda and the damage it causes.

Hamed El-Said investigates the emergence of new, 'soft' approaches to counter violent extremists, generally known as counter radicalization and deradicalization programmes (Counter-de-Rad). This is the first work to develop a holistic framework which will allow policy makers and practitioners to better understand conditions conducive to violent extremism, and to better design and effectively implement such programmes in the future. This book, supported and facilitated by a wealth of primary research and consideration of all stakeholders, addresses cultural and legal differences between countries while developing its holistic approach. In addition, the research focuses on and identifies conditions conducive to either the success or the failure of Counter-de-Rad programmes. Finally, it provides a new, broader approach to evaluate the performance of such programmes, one that goes beyond the current narrow models which treat recidivism rates as the main indicator of success or failure.

Der Beitrag betrachtet die zunehmende Radikalisierung der Jugendlichen in Somalia. Die unkontrollierbare Gewalt, der die Jugendlichen im somalischen Bürgerkrieg ausgesetzt waren und die Abtrennung von Familie und Verwandten haben dazu beigetragen, dass sie empfänglich sind für radikale Ideen. Radikale Organisationen wie al-Shabaab bieten Hoffnung und ausgestattet mit Waffen fühlen sich die Jugendlichen nicht nur mental sicherer. Vor diesem Hintergrund analysiert die Autorin die verschiedenen Versuche seit 2001, die Jugend zu entwaffnen und wieder in die Gesellschaft zu integrieren. Sie zeigt auf, dass diese ergriffenen Maßnahmen wenig effektiv waren, da sie auf falschen Versprechungen basierten und die vorhandene traditionelle Justiz zu wenig berücksichtigt wurde. Für die Zukunft empfiehlt sie diese besser zu berücksichtigen und Maßnahmen zu ergreifen, die die lokale Infrastruktur unterstützen. (ICB2).

Hamed El-Said investigates Counter-de-Rad programmes in Muslim majority and Muslim minority states. This multifaceted book provides a new approach to evaluate Counter-de-Rad Programmes and develops a holistic framework which will allow policy-makers and practitioners to design and effectively implement and assess such programmes in the future.