Foreign Fighters and International Peace - Joining Global Jihad and Marching Back Home

This book provides compelling account of the emergence of jihadism and ISIS, radicalization process of jihadism and their post-ISIS lives, and consequences of a family jihad that resulted of thousands of women and children held in the desert with nowhere to go.

List of contents

Foreword byJohn Heathershaw
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Global Jihadism: Emergence, Gradual Change and Search for Enemies
Chapter Two: Why Join ISIS: Conceptualizing Radicalization Process of Jihadists
Chapter Three: Fall of ISIS: Dilemma of Justice and Consequences of a Family Jihad
Chapter Four: Post- ISIS Life: Women and Children in the Desert Nowhere to Go
Chapter Five: Women's Roles in ISIS and Gender-Based Assumptions
Chapter Six: Children of ISIS: Brought to or Born in the Conflict Zone
Chapter Seven: State Policies to Deal with Returning Fighters and their Associates
Chapter Eight: State Obligations: Repatriation Cases as a Model to Study
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Cholpon Orozobekova is director of the Bulan Institute for Peace Innovations, research institute based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Summary

This book provides compelling account of the emergence of jihadism and ISIS, radicalization process of jihadism and their post-ISIS lives, and consequences of a family jihad that resulted of thousands of women and children held in the desert with nowhere to go.

Product details

• Authors: Cholpon Orozobekova
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2022
• EAN: 9780761873709
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-7370-9
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Middle East, Politics & government, Terrorism, armed struggle