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Dreams and disillusionment: engagement in and disengagement from militant extremist groups

Bjørgo, Tore
Journal article, Peer reviewed
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Date
2011
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Bjørgo, Tore (2011). Dreams and disillusionment: engagement in and disengagement from militant extremist groups. Crime, Law and Social Change, 55(4), 277-285.  
Abstract
People engage in terrorism and similar forms of violent extremism for

a variety of reasons, political or non-political. The frequent failure to achieve

what they expected or dreamed about is also usually the source of their

disillusionment, and subsequently, a main reason to disengage from violent

extremism. Individuals involved in terrorism often come from a diversity of

social backgrounds and have undergone rather different processes of violent

radicalisation. Profiles of terrorists do not work as a tool to identify actual or

potential terrorists because such profiles fail to capture the diversity and how

people change when they become involved in militant extremism. This study

suggests a more dynamic typology of participants in militant groups, based on

dimensions which represent dynamic continuums rather than static positions.

During their extremist careers individuals may move from resembling one type

initially into acquiring more of the characteristics of other types at later stages.

When it comes to prevention and intervention measures, one size does not fit

them all. The typology may be used as an aid to develop more specific and

targeted strategies for preventing violent radicalisation and facilitating disengagement,

taking into account the diversity and specific drivers behind different

types of activists.
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Springer

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