Western countries started to bring back ISIS-children, while still having no proper plan outlined regarding the reintegration and rehabilitation of those.
Most deradicalization programs focus on male adults, neglecting special needs for children, who have been ISIS’ victims being exposed and desensitized to violence during their identity formation.
Our current project is to establish a plan for taking back ISIS-children, basing it on past and contemporary methods of reintegrating minors into society such as the rehabilitation programs for former child soldiers.
Our ideas have already found recognition in German media.
The events in Vienna in November 2020 revealed a dangerous misconception of terrorism and extremist ideology. The Viennese political and legal authorities claimed to have been tricked into believing the attacker was deradicalized, thus exposing an insufficient understanding of terrorism: Radicalization and the execution of terrorist attacks are often still perceived as the outcome of brainwashing and psychological deficits. Yet, terrorism is rational, used as a strategy by mentally stable individuals to reach a political goal. While rationality has previously been applied to terrorism in the scholarly discourse, understanding deradicalization as a rational choice from a terrorist perspective lacks research. Thus, our aim is to picture the possibility of terrorists to misuse taking part in deradicalization programs, which eventually lead to being declared as deradicalized, as a strategy of terrorists in order to maximise their outcomes.
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