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Why Terrorists Quit: The Disengagement of Indonesian Jihadists

Why Terrorists Quit: The Disengagement of Indonesian Jihadists

Chernov Hwang, Julie

Hardcover

CriminologyGeneral Political ScienceSoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 1501710826
ISBN13: 9781501710827
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Mar 15 2018
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Why do hard-line terrorists decide to leave their organizations and quit the world of terror and destruction? This is the question for which Julie Chernov Hwang seeks answers in Why Terrorists Quit.

Over the course of six years Chernov Hwang conducted more than one hundred interviews with current and former leaders and followers of radical Islamist groups in Indonesia. Using what she learned from these radicals she examines the reasons they rejected physical force and extremist ideology, slowly moving away from, or in some cases completely leaving, groups such as Jemaah Islamiyah, Mujahidin KOMPAK, Ring Banten, Laskar Jihad, and Tanah Runtuh. Why Terrorists Quit considers the impact of various public initiatives designed to encourage radicals to disengage, and follows the lives of five radicals from the various groups, seeking to establish trends, ideas, and reasons for why radicals might eschew violence or quit terrorism.

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