Cette contribution analyse les procédures pénales ayant trait au terrorisme djihadiste conduites devant le Tribunal pénal fédéral depuis sa création. Il s’est agi d’établir les faits ayant donnés lieu à une poursuite judiciaire, puis leurs conséquences. Il apparaît que le droit pénal couvre déjà l’intégralité de l’éventail d’actes qui pourraient être considérés comme faisant partie…
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Wie gefährlich sind «Terrorist*innen»? Zur Tragweite eines Labels
Die geplanten Gesetzesänderungen zur Bekämpfung von Terrorismus stellen Auswüchse repressiver und feindstrafrechtlicher kriminalpolitischer Tendenzen dar, die von einer These profitieren, die selten in Frage gestellt wird. Nämlich, dass Terrorist*innen gefährlich sind. Doch was bedeutet es, in der Schweiz ein*e «Terrorist*in» zu sein? Ist der Kurzschluss zwischen dem Label und der Gefährlichkeit gerechtfertigt? Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung….
Decolonising terrorism: The racist pre-crime, cheap orientalism and the Taqiya trap
Abstract Since 9/11, states around the world have engaged in efforts to counter the so-called terrorist threat. Besides neo-colonial military projects, this has manifested itself in a mushrooming of laws, policies, and practices in the realm of counterterrorism, and an explosion of research into terrorism, extremism, and radicalisation. In this chapter, drawing on my experiences…
Leaving peace for war: An exploratory study of Swiss men’s trajectories toward engagement in Arab conflicts
While the issue of foreign fighting has been very present in Swiss public discourse in recent years, little is known about the actual trajectories of young men who engage in this particular form of political violence. Based primarily on face-to-face in-depth interviews with four Swiss male nationals who travelled to conflict zones in the Arab…
Politico-ideological violence in Lebanon: The narrative embeddedness of grievances
1 Introduction Grievance-based violence comes in many forms. The phenomenon labelled variably as terrorism, political violence, or violent extremism is one of them. Scholarship in this field has for years pointed to the importance of grievances in the process towards violent action, yet in-depth engagement with grievances is only starting to pick up. This special issue…
‘Yes, security, there is security. But other than that, nothing.’: An empirical inquiry into the ‘everyday (in)security’ of Syrian and Iraqi urban refugees in Jordan
Ahmed Ajil[1], Manon Jendly[2], Claudia Campistol Mas[3] Scholarship on security has recently seen a shift from traditionally state-centric, elitist and objectivist conceptions of ‘security’ towards human-centred perspectives which put emphasis on forms of ‘vernacular’ and ‘everyday’ security, and promote bottom-up empirical inquiries to further our understand of what security looks like ‘from below’. There remains, however,…
Interviewing activists and terrorists: a detailed research protocol
In the domain of PVE as well as reintegration, the most interesting studies are arguably based on material collected first-hand from the individuals involved in the phenomenon of political violence or terrorism. As more individuals from the 2013-2016 wave of foreign terrorist fighters are exiting the criminal justice system, young individuals with no memory of…
Studying Terror Through my I’s: Autoethnographic Insider/Outsider Reflections of an Arab-Muslim Researcher
Abstract The phenomena referred to as terrorism and political violence have become a major object of academic interest over the past two decades. While the lack of first-hand data collection has been criticised, a growing number of researchers are conducting field research and interviews with individuals involved in these phenomena. Among those, there are scholars with ethnic,…
Der al-Muhaysini Komplex: Vom Propagieren der Propaganda von Propagandisten
Dieser Beitrag analysiert die Verurteilung der IZRS-Vorstandsmitglieder wegen Verstosses gegen Art. 2 Abs. 1 des AQ/IS-Gesetzes. Durch die Produktion und Bewerbung eines Interviews mit dem geistigen Führer der syrischen Jaysh al-Fath und eines Dokumentarfilms tätigten sie vorsätzlich Al-Qaida-Propaganda. Ziel des Beitrags ist es, die mit dem Erstarken des Terrorismuspräventionsparadigmas vorangetriebene Verschiebung in den präventivstrafrechtlichen Bereich…
Politico-ideological violence: Zooming in on grievances
Most studies on politico-ideological violence (PIV) recognize the importance of socio-political and economic grievances, but they rarely analyse them in depth. I argue that this is symptomatic of a tendency of depoliticization in radicalization research in the post 9/11 context and suggest that the study of PIV may benefit from putting greater emphasis on the…