Resisting Radicalization: Exploring the Nonoccurence of Violent Extremism
Morten Bøås, Gilad Ben-Nun, Ulf Engel, Kari Osland | 2025
Precarious living conditions across the Balkans, the Middle East, and North Africa create fertile ground for radical ideas. Yet, despite genuine grievances and legitimate grounds for anger, most people living in these regions are not radicalized and do not embrace ideas that lead to acts of violent extremism. Which raises the question ... why?
To answer this question, the authors of Resisting Radicalization investigate the nonoccurrence of violent extremism in what they term enabling environments. Their work, the result of a multiyear international project, has critical implications for the future of P/CVE (Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism) programs.
Publications
- Date
- 01.01.2025
- Language
- English
- Publication Type
- Edited volume
- Discipline
- Global Studies (opens in new window), Political Science (opens in new window), Sociology (opens in new window)
- Keywords
- Extremism (opens in new window), Conflict (opens in new window), Legitimacy (opens in new window), Polarization (opens in new window), Postcolonialism (opens in new window)
- Audience
- Employees of political institutions and administrations (opens in new window), Political decision-makers (opens in new window), Scientists (opens in new window)
- Sources
- Bøås, Morten, Gilad Ben-Nun, Ulf Engel and Kari Osland. Eds. 2025. Resisting Radicalization: Exploring the Nonoccurence of Violent Extremism. Boulder, CO & London: Lynne Rienner.
- Open Access
- Available
- Additional Links
- To the publication (external link)
Contributing RISC authors
Work Packages
A_04
RISC
Leipzig
Policies of Social Cohesion in Africa: Entangled Governance in Post-Trauma Societies and the Role of International Organizations
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