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SERBIA: Radicalization in Serbia: The Youth of Sandžak between a Hammer and an Anvil
SERBIA: Radicalization in Serbia: The Youth of Sandžak between a Hammer and an Anvil

Author(s): Aida Ćorović
Subject(s): Civil Society, Islam studies, International relations/trade, Studies in violence and power, Radical sociology , Sociology of Religion, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Atlantska inicijativa: Udruženje za promicanje euroatlantskih integracija BiH
Keywords: Serbia; radicalization; Youth; Sandžak; Western Balkans; conflicts; extremism; religious radicalism; Muslim extremism; terrorism; Afghan mujahideen; Middle East;
Summary/Abstract: The end of the 20th century brought deep change to the Balkans, including redefined national aspirations, and the disintegration of one large state and the emergence of new, smaller states. The period was marked not only by economic crisis and the dissolution of political systems, but above all by the brutal and bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia, which had been an important geostrategic meeting point of East and West for years. A wave of conflicts inspired by political extremism soon awakened religious radicalism, and in new and rather unexpected places, such as Albania, where the ban on religion was lifted after the fall of a brutal Communist dictatorship in the early 1990s. This total religious prohibition was replaced by religious freedom, opening the doors to the influence of global Muslim extremism; and pressured by events in Afghanistan, Albania became a destination and temporary refuge for Afghan mujahideen. [...]

  • Page Range: 125-136
  • Page Count: 12
  • Publication Year: 2017
  • Language: English