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Who is susceptible to religious or ethnic radicalization? What is the average profile of people who are already radicalized: male; aged between 15 and 35; belonging to a particular religion; unemployed; uneducated; a person with criminal background; traumatized; from broken families? No. There is no profile of such a person. Everyone is susceptible to religious or ethnic radicalization and extremism.
Most of us may not take up violence to express our extreme positions. However, in our judgement, in our expressions, in our daily encounters, we might lack empathy to our neighbor, particularly those who are different from us: in race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and whatever. This attitude could breed into violent extremism and radicalization!
The sole aim of this training manual is to help the participants reflect […]
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Psychological Substrates of Religious Radicalisation
On 26th September, the Institute of Youth Studies at Tangaza University College organised a conference on the theme of radicalisation. The conference was well attended – there were over 300 participants. The speakers included representatives from the Ministry of Education, Kenya, and Department of Security.
I presented a paper too on the above topic. The scope of the paper was to discuss the psychological substrates of religious radicalisation. ‘Substrates’ refer to a substance or layer that underlies something, or on which some process occurs, in particular. We focus on psychological substrates: what are the psychological factors that underpin the process of radicalisation? Radicalisation: is a process by which an individual or group comes to adopt increasingly extreme political, social, or religious ideals and aspirations that reject or undermine the existing order, […]