FROM RADICALIZATION TO TERRORISM
FROM RADICALIZATION TO TERRORISM

Summary/Abstract: TERRORISM HAS MANIFESTED ITSELF IN VARIOUS FORMS OF RADICALISM (POLITICAL, SOCIAL, ETHNIC, RELIGIOUS, ETC.) BUT WITH THE SAME PURPOSE, NAMELY THE INDUCTION OF TERROR AS A FORM OF SOCIETAL EXPRESSION, TO ACHIEVE THE GOAL PURSUED BY A CERTAIN GROUP OF PEOPLE. RELIGIOUS, NATIONALIST, ETHNIC AND SOCIAL RADICALISM PRACTICED BY VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS PERPETRATES A LARGE NUMBER OF RADICAL MANIFESTOS THAT ARE CONSTANTLY GENERATING NEW FORMS OF INDUCING TERROR. IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MECHANISM OF RADICALIZATION, THE INDIVIDUAL OR GROUPS GO THROUGH A SERIES OF STAGES OF RADICALIZATION PRIOR TO THE OPERATIONALIZATION OF THE VIOLENT ACT: PRE-RADICALIZATION - CHARACTERIZED BY THE USUAL AND UNREMARKABLE CHARACTER OF THE INDIVIDUAL; SELF-IDENTIFICATION - "COGNITIVE OPENNESS" - INDIVIDUALS, INFLUENCED BY INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FACTORS, BEGIN TO EXPLORE THE ISLAMIC RELIGION; INDOCTRINATION - INDIVIDUALS PROGRESSIVELY INTENSIFY THEIR BELIEFS AND FULLY ADOPT JIHADIST IDEOLOGY; JIHADIZATION - THE END POINT OF RADICALIZATION IN WHICH INDIVIDUALS ACCEPT THEIR DUTY TO PARTICIPATE IN JIHAD. THE END OF THE STAGE IS REPRESENTED BY THE OPERATIONAL PLANNING OF A TERRORIST ATTACK

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