Dialogue About Radicalisation and Equality Project
The DARE (Dialogue about Radicalisation and Equality) project includes 15 partners in 13 countries - Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Malta, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, The Netherlands, Tunisia, Turkey and the UK - and will run for four years. Funded under the EU Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, it will investigate young people’s encounters with messages and agents of radicalisation, how they receive and respond to those calls, and how they make choices about the paths they take.
It aims to broaden understanding of radicalisation, demonstrate that it is not located in any one religion or community, and to explore the effects of radicalisation on society.
DARE will focus on people aged between 12 and 30, as they are a key target of recruiters and existing research suggests they may be particularly receptive to radicalism. It will approach young people neither as victims nor perpetrators of radicalisation, but as engaged, reflexive, often passionate social actors who seek information they can trust, as they navigate a world in which calls to radicalisation are numerous.
It aims to broaden understanding of radicalisation, demonstrate that it is not located in any one religion or community, and to explore the effects of radicalisation on society.
DARE will focus on people aged between 12 and 30, as they are a key target of recruiters and existing research suggests they may be particularly receptive to radicalism. It will approach young people neither as victims nor perpetrators of radicalisation, but as engaged, reflexive, often passionate social actors who seek information they can trust, as they navigate a world in which calls to radicalisation are numerous.
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understanding of the role of inequality and perceived injustice in radicalisation in relation to young Muslims’ integration in Greek society.
way of responding to the needs and fears of individuals who are often fragile and trapped, for whom the failure of the social contract is self-evident
The research design of the project began at the height of the ISIS’s invasion of the Kurdish North Syrian town of Kobane in October 2014, and the report was concluded in October 2019, a few days after the execution of ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi following Turkey’s invasion of the Kurdish territories in Northern Syria.
The report is about young people’s understanding, perception and reflection of radicalisation and provides ethnography-based analysis of social and political mechanisms of radicalisation across the Turkish-Syrian borders and in Istanbul during this period
For the right-wing extremist sample, we found anti-Islamism to be part of a broader set of negative attitudes towards immigration. Jihadist terrorism and violent crime committed by immigrants is extrapolated to suggest that the people of Belgium are at risk of being overrun by immigrants and
the loss of identity, although there are differences in how this Belgian identity is understood between the Flemish and French speaking Walloon segments of our sample. For the Flemish segment, identity is found to relate to a Flemish heritage, which by its very nature is oppositional to
Walloon heritage, but not vice versa.
dimensions: (i) quantitative and qualitative appreciations of the sample highlight levels of integration, connectivity as well the possibility of observing an online milieu by means of the collected material; (ii) qualitative determination of the main repertoires of action and labelling processes coproducing social identities as well as groups of radicals; (iii) lexical and quantitative analysis of influencing factors likely to trigger media engagement, i.e. themes, events and online influencers, further illustrating rationales people identify with; (iv) network analysis of digital sociability of samples on a national and international scale.
as well as the possibility it affords of efficient and GDPR compliant data access and collection. All accounts in the study sample can be considered ‘radical’ according to the criteria provided in the
introduction and methodology. However, in the UK study, a higher threshold of what constitutes ‘radical’ online behaviour was adopted than in other country reports in the wider DARE project.
This means all accounts categorised as ‘Islamist’ (IS) were required to demonstrate some level of support for, or sympathy with, Jihadist extremist ideas or key influencers. The right-wing extremist
accounts (RWE) were required to demonstrate a similar level of alignment with radical ideas and content.
understanding of the role of inequality and perceived injustice in radicalisation in relation to young Muslims’ integration in Greek society.
way of responding to the needs and fears of individuals who are often fragile and trapped, for whom the failure of the social contract is self-evident
The research design of the project began at the height of the ISIS’s invasion of the Kurdish North Syrian town of Kobane in October 2014, and the report was concluded in October 2019, a few days after the execution of ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi following Turkey’s invasion of the Kurdish territories in Northern Syria.
The report is about young people’s understanding, perception and reflection of radicalisation and provides ethnography-based analysis of social and political mechanisms of radicalisation across the Turkish-Syrian borders and in Istanbul during this period
For the right-wing extremist sample, we found anti-Islamism to be part of a broader set of negative attitudes towards immigration. Jihadist terrorism and violent crime committed by immigrants is extrapolated to suggest that the people of Belgium are at risk of being overrun by immigrants and
the loss of identity, although there are differences in how this Belgian identity is understood between the Flemish and French speaking Walloon segments of our sample. For the Flemish segment, identity is found to relate to a Flemish heritage, which by its very nature is oppositional to
Walloon heritage, but not vice versa.
dimensions: (i) quantitative and qualitative appreciations of the sample highlight levels of integration, connectivity as well the possibility of observing an online milieu by means of the collected material; (ii) qualitative determination of the main repertoires of action and labelling processes coproducing social identities as well as groups of radicals; (iii) lexical and quantitative analysis of influencing factors likely to trigger media engagement, i.e. themes, events and online influencers, further illustrating rationales people identify with; (iv) network analysis of digital sociability of samples on a national and international scale.
as well as the possibility it affords of efficient and GDPR compliant data access and collection. All accounts in the study sample can be considered ‘radical’ according to the criteria provided in the
introduction and methodology. However, in the UK study, a higher threshold of what constitutes ‘radical’ online behaviour was adopted than in other country reports in the wider DARE project.
This means all accounts categorised as ‘Islamist’ (IS) were required to demonstrate some level of support for, or sympathy with, Jihadist extremist ideas or key influencers. The right-wing extremist
accounts (RWE) were required to demonstrate a similar level of alignment with radical ideas and content.