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THEMES OF RADICALISATION REVEALED THROUGH THE PERSONAL CONSTRUCTS OF JIHADI TERRORISTS
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Sudhanshu Sarangi*, David Canter**, Donna Youngs** |
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University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
** International Research Centre for
Investigative Psychology, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
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Abstract
To contribute to an understanding of the individual psychologies that characterise
people who carry out acts of terrorism, four distinct themes are proposed that
can each dominate Islamic terrorist’s conceptualisations of his/her own
actions: Islamic Jihad, Political Jihad, Social and Criminal. These themes are
illustrated from interviews with people convicted of Jihadi-related acts of
terrorism within India. The interviews utilised Kelly’s Repertory Grid
procedure, thus allowing the Personal Construct System of the interviewees to
be explored in association with their accounts of their lives. These case
studies provide rare insights from the terrorists themselves, indicating
important similarities across individuals as well as distinct differences in
the structure of their thinking that inform considerations of radicalisation
and approaches to facilitating disengagement.
Keywords: Terrorism, repertory
grid, jihad, radicalisation
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REFERENCE
Sarangi, S., Canter, D., Youngs, D. Themes of radicalisation revealed though the personal constructs of Jihadi terrorists.
Personal Construct Theory & Practice, 10, 40-60, 2013
(Retrieved from http://www.pcp-net.org/journal/pctp13/sarangi13.html)
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