A public health approach to understanding and preventing violent radicalization
Open Access
- 14 February 2012
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Medicine
- Vol. 10 (1) , 16
Abstract
Very recent acts of terrorism in the UK were perpetrated by 'homegrown', well educated young people, rather than by foreign Islamist groups; consequently, a process of violent radicalization was proposed to explain how ordinary people were recruited and persuaded to sacrifice their lives.Keywords
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