Unemployment and Violent Extremism : Evidence from Daesh Foreign Recruits

Unemployment and Violent Extremism : Evidence from Daesh Foreign Recruits

Transnational terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State group (also known as ISIS/ISIL or Daesh) have shown an ability to attract radicalized individuals from many countries to join their ranks. Using a novel data set that reports countries...

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Main Authors: Abdel Jelil, Mohamed, Bhatia, Kartika, Brockmeyer, Anne, Do, Quy-Toan, Joubert, Clement
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:
TERRORISM
UNEMPLOYMENT
RADICALIZATION
INCLUSION
EXTREMISM
VIOLENCE
DAESH
ISIL
ISIS
RECRUITMENT
FANATICS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/967561522155860057/Unemployment-and-violent-extremism-evidence-from-Daesh-foreign-recruits
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spelling okr-10986-295612022-09-18T12:15:34Z Unemployment and Violent Extremism : Evidence from Daesh Foreign Recruits Abdel Jelil, Mohamed Bhatia, Kartika Brockmeyer, Anne Do, Quy-Toan Joubert, Clement TERRORISM UNEMPLOYMENT RADICALIZATION INCLUSION EXTREMISM VIOLENCE DAESH ISIL ISIS RECRUITMENT FANATICS Transnational terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State group (also known as ISIS/ISIL or Daesh) have shown an ability to attract radicalized individuals from many countries to join their ranks. Using a novel data set that reports countries of residence and educational levels of a large sample of Daesh's foreign recruits, this paper finds that a lack of economic opportunities -- measured by unemployment rates disaggregated by country and education level -- explains foreign enrollment in the terrorist organization, especially for countries that are geographically closer to the Syrian Arab Republic. 2018-03-30T19:02:40Z 2018-03-30T19:02:40Z 2018-03 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/967561522155860057/Unemployment-and-violent-extremism-evidence-from-Daesh-foreign-recruits http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29561 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8381 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Middle East and North Africa Middle East North Africa
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topic TERRORISM
UNEMPLOYMENT
RADICALIZATION
INCLUSION
EXTREMISM
VIOLENCE
DAESH
ISIL
ISIS
RECRUITMENT
FANATICS
spellingShingle TERRORISM
UNEMPLOYMENT
RADICALIZATION
INCLUSION
EXTREMISM
VIOLENCE
DAESH
ISIL
ISIS
RECRUITMENT
FANATICS
Abdel Jelil, Mohamed
Bhatia, Kartika
Brockmeyer, Anne
Do, Quy-Toan
Joubert, Clement
Unemployment and Violent Extremism : Evidence from Daesh Foreign Recruits
geographic_facet Middle East and North Africa
Middle East
North Africa
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8381
description Transnational terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State group (also known as ISIS/ISIL or Daesh) have shown an ability to attract radicalized individuals from many countries to join their ranks. Using a novel data set that reports countries of residence and educational levels of a large sample of Daesh's foreign recruits, this paper finds that a lack of economic opportunities -- measured by unemployment rates disaggregated by country and education level -- explains foreign enrollment in the terrorist organization, especially for countries that are geographically closer to the Syrian Arab Republic.
format Working Paper
author Abdel Jelil, Mohamed
Bhatia, Kartika
Brockmeyer, Anne
Do, Quy-Toan
Joubert, Clement
author_facet Abdel Jelil, Mohamed
Bhatia, Kartika
Brockmeyer, Anne
Do, Quy-Toan
Joubert, Clement
author_sort Abdel Jelil, Mohamed
title Unemployment and Violent Extremism : Evidence from Daesh Foreign Recruits
title_short Unemployment and Violent Extremism : Evidence from Daesh Foreign Recruits
title_full Unemployment and Violent Extremism : Evidence from Daesh Foreign Recruits
title_fullStr Unemployment and Violent Extremism : Evidence from Daesh Foreign Recruits
title_full_unstemmed Unemployment and Violent Extremism : Evidence from Daesh Foreign Recruits
title_sort unemployment and violent extremism : evidence from daesh foreign recruits
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2018
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/967561522155860057/Unemployment-and-violent-extremism-evidence-from-Daesh-foreign-recruits
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29561
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