TERRORISM AND RADICALIZATION IN THE 21st CENTURY
TERRORISM AND RADICALIZATION IN THE 21st CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: Different types of terrorism we have experienced lately, were based on extreme political and the unleash factors are complex. In addition to traditional threats to security like criminality, organized crime, cybercrime, border crimes and violence, today we face a terrorism that manages to take various forms acquiring a perennial feature. Dimensions that it reached enables terrorists to recruit more and more followers, especially young people, through propaganda campaigns, especially online, that have become genuine instruments of radicalization. Terrorist networks have thus, gained followers worldwide, mostly young Muslims from the West who have been marginalized by the society, their dissatisfactions create a propitious environment for indoctrination with extremist ideologies. The psychological profile of young people prone to radicalization is made in time, the vast majority of them are of Arab origin, vulnerable, isolated from society because of their religion and suffering from complexed image. Radical Islamism for them is perceived as an opportunity and thus legitimizing their maladjustment and guiding them to a sacred cause for revenge on the society in which they did not adapt. We talk about the paradigm of domestic terrorists who are part of groups of young from second and third generation of immigrants settled in different parts of Europe, and young people converted to Islam, becoming the so-called "lone wolfs”.

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