Who Supports Violent Extremism in Developing Countries? : Analysis of Attitudes Based on Value Surveys
What are the common characteristics among radicalized individuals, willing to justify attacks targeting civilians? Drawing on information on attitudes toward extreme violence and other characteristics of 30,787 individuals from 27 developing countr...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/06/26422777/supports-violent-extremism-developing-countries-analysis-attitudes-based-value-surveys http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24529 |
| Summary: | What are the common characteristics
among radicalized individuals, willing to justify attacks
targeting civilians? Drawing on information on attitudes
toward extreme violence and other characteristics of 30,787
individuals from 27 developing countries around the world,
and employing a variety of econometric techniques, this
paper identifies the partial correlates of extremism. The
results suggest that the typical extremist who supports
attacks against civilians is more likely to be young,
unemployed and struggling to make ends meet, relatively
uneducated, and not as religious as others, but more willing
to sacrifice own life for his or her beliefs. Gender and
marital status are not found to explain significantly the
individual-level variation in attitudes toward extremism.
Although these results may vary in magnitude and
significance across countries and geographic regions, they
are robust to various sensitivity analyses. |
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