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…
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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…
Politico-ideological violence and mobilisation in the Arab World: All in (Routledge, 2023)
This book presents a study of politico-ideological mobilisation and violence by focusing on the life stories, trajectories and narratives of individuals who mobilised for causes and conflicts in the Arab World. It provides a greater understanding of the biographical, sociological, political and historic factors pertinent for their radicalisation processes. What makes individuals identify with suffering…